[Haskell-cafe] Help with optimization

[Adrian Neumann]

Maybe your image isn't strict enough and the computations are forced  
when the image gets written to disc?


Am 20.07.2008 um 14:13 schrieb Mitar:

> Hi!
>
> Profiling says that my program spends 18.4 % of time (that is around
> three seconds) and 18.3 % of allocations in this function which is
> saving the rendered image to a PPM file:
>
> saveImageList :: String -> Int -> Int -> [ViewportDotColor] -> IO ()
> saveImageList filename width height image = do
>   B.writeFile filename file
>     where file = B.append header bytes
>           header = C.pack $ "P6\n" ++ show width ++ " " ++ show height
> ++ "\n255\n"
>           bytes = B.pack $ concatMap (color . dealpha .
> (\(ViewportDotColor _ c) -> c)) image
>             where color (VoxelColor red green blue _) = [floor $ red *
> 255, floor $ green * 255, floor $ blue * 255]
>                   dealpha c = addColor c (VoxelColor 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0)
> -- white background
>
> For a 921615 bytes large file to save this is too much in my opinion.
> And I think that it consumes to much allocations. Probably it should
> not store intermediate lists?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Best regards
>
>
> Mitar
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