On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:57, Donn Cave <donn@avvanta.com> wrote:

I don't know. When I was younger, I used to track these problems down
and try to explain in detail why buffered I/O is a bad bet with pipes,
sockets etc. I don't think anyone listened. I think I am going to
experiment with "I am old, so listen to me" and see if it works any better.

If nothing else, you can transfer one of those explanations into the wiki and point people to it when it comes up. (Nobody pays attention to stuff not directly affecting them. This is annoying but somewhat understandable, especially given that haskell-cafe tends toward information overload / death by a thousand mathematical constructs :)

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