On Wednesday 21 September 2005 20:17, John Meacham wrote: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:32:56AM +0200, Benjamin Franksen wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 September 2005 16:50, John Goerzen wrote: > > > On the flip side, Parsec is really nice. I wonder how easy it > > > would be to make it parse [Word8] instead of String? > > > > Isn't Parsec parameterized over the token type? > > > > > Or even a > > > FastPackedString? (And how easy it would be to get that instead > > > of a String from hGetContents)? > > > > From the FPS haddock: > > > > hGetContents :: Handle -> IO FastString > > > > Read entire handle contents into a FastString. > > > > This may or may not do what you want...it's probably not a lazy > > read. > > If it can be implemented via 'mmap' then it is effectivly a lazy > read. and _very_ efficient to boot.
True, I forgot mmap. Taking a look at the implementation reveals that it indeed uses mmap (if available on the platform). Ben _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
