22 Jan
2007
22 Jan
'07
9:37 p.m.
Neil Mitchell wrote:
Hi Alexy,
Now I'm reading a Haskell book which states the same. Is there a more efficient Haskell string-handling method? Which functional language is the most suitable for text processing?
There are the Data.ByteString things, which are great, and have much less overhead.
But remember that Haskell is lazy. If you are thinking "well I have to process a 50Mb file", remember that Haskell will lazily read and process this file, which substantially reduces the memory requirements so only a small portion will ever be in memory at a time.
Or you can get the best of both worlds by using Data.ByteString.Lazy :) Even with laziness, all the indirections that String causes hurts performance.