Re: Binary IO

Simon Marlow writes:

Does anyone have any *objections* to introducing

System.IO.hGetWord8 :: Handle -> IO Word8 System.IO.hPutWord8 :: Word8 -> Handle -> IO Word8

I don't mind having these functions, but to be honest I doubt that they would be useful for real life applications. Reading a byte at a time is a performance nightmare, buffering or not. IMHO, the much better API is this one: hPutBufNonBlocking :: Handle -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO Int hGetBufNonBlocking :: Handle -> Ptr a -> Int -> IO Int Peter