[Haskell-cafe] Re: Processing of large files

On 2004-11-01, Peter Simons wrote:

Alexander N Kogan writes:

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I'm newbie and I don't understand how to process large files in haskell with constant memory requirements.

Read and process the file in blocks:

http://cryp.to/blockio/docs/tutorial.html

I don't think that would really save much memory, and in fact, would likely just make the code a lot more complex. It seems like a simple wrapper around hGetContents over a file that uses block buffering would suffice. (The block buffering to boost performace.) -- John