Daniel Fischer wrote:
Heinrich Apfelmus wrote:
Daniel Fischer wrote:
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.
Yes, I/O should happen in chunks, but I thought that the Enumerator
implementations could buffer I/O while still presenting single
characters to the Iteratees.
Regards,
Heinrich Apfelmus
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http://apfelmus.nfshost.com
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