[Haskell-cafe] Iteratee performance

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Vasyl Pasternak
> 
> Yesterday I played with iteratee package, and wanted to check its
> performance. I tried to count lines in a file, as Oleg in his famous
> lazy_vs_correct[1] article. The results somewhat disappointed me.
> 
> The statistics and code follows, but shortly: lazy bytestring is the
> fastest, iteratee with bytestrings 10 times slower than lazy
> bytestring. When comparing lazy string and iteratee with [Char], than
> their results were close, but lazy string reading uses less memory and
> was a bit faster (20%).
> 
> I performed test on 250Mb file with 5 millions lines.

Not tuning advice, but still...

If you have the time, could you also try Peter Simon's old block-io
proposal?
  http://cryp.to/blockio/fast-io.html

I'm curious to see how it compares to bytestring. I can't see why the
iteratee approach can't have similar performance.

Alistair
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