On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Ketil Malde wrote:

> Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Jason Bailey wrote:
> 
> >> Would anyone know of packages out there for Haskell that support mp3's 
> >> or ogg files?
> 
> > Do you mean realtime unpacking and playback? I'm afraid without hacking
> > Haskell programs are too slow for that.
> 
> Really?  Written in C, mpg123 can decode 50 minutes of audio in 30
> seconds (tested on a 1GHz PIII) -- would a Haskell implementaion
> really be 100x slower?   

I've written much simpler audio signal processing routines compiled by GHC
which don't run in realtime on a 1GHz machine ... 

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