Hal Daume III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What sent me first into deep confusion is that I found all of
>> {Text,GHC}.{Read,Show} first, and the Read classes marked as
>> "nonportable GHC extensions". Quite disheartening :-(
>> Well, then I found the Prelude definition (though it's entirely unclear
>> how they relate to the Text and GHC versions).
> The GHC versions are simply more efficient versions. Show and Read are
> completely portable.
AIIEE! Now they tell me -- I've optimized one of my programs, and it
now spends most of it's time 'read'ing. So the thing is just to
import GHC(read) instead of using the Prelude version? I guess it's
worth a try (although I expect I really need to go to binary IO)
-kzm
--
If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants
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