Hello Niko, Tuesday, November 28, 2006, 1:42:10 PM, you wrote:
> I personally find doing higher order functions with IO extremely > difficult, and the resulting compiler errors are often downright scary. > But this is probably a direct consequence my rather limited > understanding of the monadic operators that the do notion hides. It > seems that one has to be /very/ good in Haskell before one can do IO > effectively. i will say that one should be very good in general program optimization and know a few haskell-specific tricks, such as avoiding laziness and boxing optimization is my lovely problem, so i can help you somewhat. first, look at http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Performance page. second, look at sources of ByteString (FPS) library - because it both shows efficient programming style and can be used for your sound processing > inefficient beyond imagination. The overhead of one list element is 8 bytes on 32-bit system > probably larger than the size of the element itself (16 to 32 bit > integers) and a new list would have to be generated every time more data > is read from the hard disk. So the garbage collector would be working > really hard all the time. And this list would have to be converted into > an IO buffer for passing it to the C sound API anyway. These were the > reasons why I went for the IOUArray way to begin with. For this > particular problem, probably the most natural and efficient solution is > to have a static buffer in memory to which data is read from the hard > drive and which is then passed to the sound API for playback. For me, > this seems the best way to do the job. it seems that you are ideal consumer for unboxed parallel arrays or extended ByteStrings (WordStrings :) we can ask Donald and Duncan whether they interested in implementing such extension? > But even this is not so obvious since I don't really know the > performance implications of different Haskell constructs and the > strong/weak points of the GHC compiler. i can give you pointers to some longer threads which discussed these topics -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe