On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com > wrote:
> > > Ah, yes, well there is one *small* problem... If you do that, the function > becomes too strict. > > The input list is being read from disk by lazy I/O. With the original > implementation, the input file gets read at the same time as the output file > is written. But runST returns nothing until the *entire* input has been > compressed. So writing to disk doesn't start until the entire file has been > slurped up into memory. > > Anybody have any hints on how to get around this? > Use a lazy state monad?
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