[Haskell-cafe] Program using 500MB RAM to process 5MB file

[lucas at die.net.au]

On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:27:08PM +1100, lucas at die.net.au wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 10:22:07AM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
> > lucas at die.net.au writes:
> > 
> > > I'm relatively new to haskell so as one does, I am rewriting an
> > > existing program in haskell to help learn the language.
> > 
> > > However, it eats up all my RAM whenever I run the program.
> > 
> 
> Thanks for all the help everyone . I've decided to dump Parsec, as the file
> structure is simple enough to implement using basic list manipulation
> (which is, I've read, one of haskell's strong points) and has turned
> out to be much simpler code.
> 

Using lazy I/O has reduced run time by 75% and RAM consumption to 3MB

Thank you :)

-- 
Lucas Hazel <lucas at die.net.au>
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