On Thursday 26 August 2010 09:33:30, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > Daniel Fischer wrote: > > John Lato wrote: > >>> Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: > >>> > >>> Do you have an example where you want chunking instead of single > >>> character access? > >> > >> I am unable to think of any examples where you want chunking for any > >> reason other than efficiency. > > > > For many hashing or de/encryption algorithms, chunking is more natural > > than single-character access. > > Even when the chunk lengths are unpredictable? After all, unlike with > fread in C, you can't request the next chunk to have a certain length > with Iteratees. >
Well, I just gave an example where one would want chunking for reasons other than performance. That iteratees don't provide the desired functionality is a different matter. For performance reasons, one would still be likely to want the I/O to happen in larger chunks than the processing, so it's kind of moot. Cheers, Daniel _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
