[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: enumerator, an alternative iteratee package

[Felipe Lessa]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:12 PM, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> wrote:
> This thought occurred to me, but really, how often are you going to
> have a 10 GiB **text** file with no newlines? Remember, this is for
> text (log files, INI-style configs, plain .txt), not binary (HTML,
> XML, JSON). Off the top of my head, I can't think of any case where
> you'd expect to see 10 GiB in a single line.
>
> In the worst case, you can just use "decode" to process bytes coming
> from the ByteString-based enumHandle, which should give nicely chunked
> text.

I was thinking about an attacker, not a use case.  Think of a web
server accepting queries using iteratees internally.  This may open
door to at least DoS attacks.

And then, we use iteratees because we don't like the unpredictability
of lazy IO.  Why should iteratees be unpredictable when dealing with
Text?  Besides the memory consumption problem, there may be
performance problems if the lines are too short.

Cheers! =)

-- 
Felipe.