On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 11:49:45PM +0100, Peter Simons wrote: > Plus, powerful abstractions that make the code look simple > and elegant _always_ come at a price. An Arrow-based stream > processor that performs the same task as my monadic BlockIO > library does, for instance, results in a module that has > half the size the StateT version does. Which is cool. But it > is, as of now, also 10 times slower than the monadic version > is. Which is not cool at all.
That's indeed a rather high cost. Although I suspect that a lot more effort has gone into optimizing Monads than into optimizing Arrows... Cheers, Remi -- Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
