Josef Svenningsson wrote:

Having said that I must also say that I think that ghc's I/O is fast *enough*. It's just that it doesn't compare very well with other languages. I've never had problems caused by slow I/O in Haskell.

This is the favorite argument of proponents of slow languages ;). But as long as people wait for their computers (to boot up, to run a program, to compile a program, to do a computation, to...) speed is going to be a virtue. Dejan http://www.jelovic.com