[Haskell-cafe] Re: Fwd: Semantics of iteratees, enumerators, enumeratees?

[Daniel Fischer]

On Wednesday 25 August 2010 13:53:47, John Lato wrote:
> > From: Heinrich Apfelmus <apfelmus at quantentunnel.de>
> >
> > Do you have an example where you want chunking instead of single
> > character access?
>
> I am unable to think of any examples where you want chunking for any
> reason other than efficiency.

For many hashing or de/encryption algorithms, chunking is more natural than 
single-character access.