Transmitting Haskell values

[ketil+haskell at ii.uib.no]

Hal Daume III <hdaume at ISI.EDU> writes:

>> What sent me first into deep confusion is that I found all of
>> {Text,GHC}.{Read,Show} first, and the Read classes marked as 
>> "nonportable GHC extensions". Quite disheartening :-(
>> Well, then I found the Prelude definition (though it's entirely unclear 
>> how they relate to the Text and GHC versions).

> The GHC versions are simply more efficient versions.  Show and Read are 
> completely portable.

AIIEE!  Now they tell me -- I've optimized one of my programs, and it
now spends most of it's time 'read'ing.  So the thing is just to
import GHC(read) instead of using the Prelude version?  I guess it's
worth a try (although I expect I really need to go to binary IO)

-kzm
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