"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Well, in Haskell each character of the string takes 20 bytes: 12 bytes
> > for the list cell, and 8 bytes for the character itself
Ahem, _Haskell_ mandates no such thing. Perhaps you are talking
about a specific implementation? ghc probably.
> I
(I
think so...) why is the C program so much faster than it?
Thanks again,
-- Andre
- Original Message -
From: Albert Lai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Working character by character in Haskell
Andre W B Furtado writes:
:
| copyFile :: String -> String -> IO String
| copyFile [] s = return (reverse s)
| copyFile (a:as) s = copyFile as ( (doSomeStuffWith a):s)
:
| For example, suppose function doSomeStuffWith returns its own
| parameter. Using a 1.5MB file in this case, the Haskel
I'm trying to create a fast program in Haskell that reads the content of a
file, do some stuff with its characters (one by one) an then save the final
result (the modified characters) in another file. The fastest program I've
developed so far is:
main :: IO ()
main = do
bmFile <- openFileEx "in.
