On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Bulat Ziganshin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Simon, > > Monday, September 22, 2008, 9:03:52 PM, you wrote: > >> With bytestrings, unboxed arrays, light-weight threads and other >> tricks, we can usually replace all those ugly low-level programs with >> nice high-level haskell ones > > i don't think that these 3 libs allows to write high-level > high-performance code in *most* cases. just for example, try to write wc > without using "words".
To a newbie, that's a cryptic statement. Are you saying that these libs aren't needed to make a high-performance "wc", and that the Prelude functions are sufficient? (I note too that there is Data.ByteString.Char8.words, but I assume you are talking about the Prelude function.) Graham _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
