jmillikin: > There's no such thing as "cheating", though that particular code won't > work for my purposes because it assumes the output is merely a stream > of "null". Fine for the benchmark, but not extractable to the full > problem. > > I wonder: is Handle known to be particularly slow? This code only has > to work on Linux and BSD, so if using (for example) a POSIX fd would > be much faster, it could bring the Haskell version much closer to C. >
Just make sure you're using the same data types and IO methods as in C, and you'll get the same performance. For serializing/writing to packed data, Data.Binary or cereal are a good choice for building bytestrings efficiently, which in turn can be output quickly via bytestring IO. -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
