[Haskell-cafe] ansi2html - one program, several issues

Chaddaï Fouché chaddai.fouche at gmail.com
Sat Jul 19 17:35:04 EDT 2008


2008/7/19 Krzysztof Skrzętnicki <gtener at gmail.com>:
> I forgot to mention that the memory consumption is several times higher than
> file size. On 8,3 Mb file:
>> 532 MB total memory in use (4 MB lost due to fragmentation).
>
> Having that 8 Mb in memory is not the problem. 532 Mb is another story. In
> general, the program consumes roughly 64 times more memory than file size
> and it scales linearly.

You should be using ByteString, though this problem would be
alleviated if you were consuming the file as a stream.

-- 
Jedaï


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