On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 6:51 AM, Neil Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gwern, > > I get String/Data.Binary issues too. My suggestion would be to change > your strings to ByteString's, serisalise, and then do the reverse > conversion when reading. Interestingly, a String and a ByteString have > identical Data.Binary reps, but in my experiments converting, > including the cost of BS.unpack, makes the reading substantially > cheaper. > > Thanks > > Neil
Ah, thanks for the advice. Switching to (strict) ByteString seems to resolve the stack overflow. (And thank goodness too, I need my ireader!) I hadn't realized it was the String that was messing things up and being lazy. Very annoying! (The String code was cleaner - fewer packs/unpacks.) -- gwern _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
