RE: fast IO in ghc

2002-04-03 Thread Simon Marlow
I tend to deal a lot with very very large data files in Haskell and my current approach to dealing with getting data out of one program an into another is writing it to a file using 'show' and then reading it in using 'read'. Unfortunately, this is very slow and produces very large

RE: fast IO in ghc

2002-04-03 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
And, with a lot of help from Koen, I'm about to fold in a much more efficient implementation of Read, which may help. Simon | -Original Message- | From: Hal Daume III [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 03 April 2002 05:36 | To: GHC Users Mailing List | Subject: fast IO in ghc | | | I

RE: fast IO in ghc

2002-04-03 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
Simon Peyton-Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, with a lot of help from Koen, I'm about to fold in a much more efficient implementation of Read, which may help. Any of the guilty parties want to give a quick overview of how it's going to work? -Jan-Willem Maessen