[Haskell-cafe] Lazy vs correct IO [Was: A round of golf]
Jason Dusek
jason.dusek at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 21:19:05 EDT 2009
Is the choice of whether or not to open/close with each chunk
read something that we can reasonably hide from the I/O API's
user? There is at least one way in which is semantically
distinct -- that old trick of opening a tempfile and then
unlinking it to hide it.
It may be the sort of thing that you do on demand, too -- we
have a file handle pool and as we run out of handles we switch
to opening/closing. For a single really long read,
opening/closing every 4k is just churn; if your doing
thousands of long reads at once, though, it can't be helped.
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Jason Dusek
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