chad.scherrer:
Ok, cool. FWIW, the current documentation for Network says:
"For really fast I/O, it might be worth looking at the hGetBuf and hPutBuf family of functions in System.IO."
But this looked pretty low-level to me, and I figured it might be outdated.
I also know Bulat Ziganshin had put together a nice-looking Streams library (http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/streams/) based on John Goerzen's previous HVIO work, but I wasn't sure if the ByteString stuff matches the speed and encapsulates all of the functionality of that anyway. Or can/should they be used together somehow?
Should be similar in speed, and most high-perf stuff seems to use ByteStrings now. ByteStrings also have some nice high level optimisations not available to lower level libraries.
Chad
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import Network import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B
hostName = "myComputer" portID = PortNumber 54321
theData :: IO B.ByteString theData = connectTo hostName portID >>= B.hGetContents _______________________________________________
Looks like the obvious, right way to me.
-- Don