On 07 October 2004 18:23, Ketil Malde wrote:
> Couldn't readFile et al. provide the standard interface, but use
> hGetBuf tricks (e.g. from your 'wc' entry) behind the curtains?
readFile does do buffering behind the scenes, that's not the problem.
The problem is doing the computation on a [Char] instead of a raw buffer
of bytes.
There are various known techniques that could be used to speed up GHC's
implementation of lists, none of which we've ever tried. This might be
a good area for experimentation, if anyone's looking for something to do
in GHC.
Cheers,
Simon
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