[Haskell-cafe] ANN: stm-conduit-0.2.1

[John Lato]

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> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:47:40 -0500
> From: wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org>
> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANN: stm-conduit-0.2.1
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> On 2/9/12 2:29 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
>> Your package uses TMChans which AFAIK are unbounded.  That means that
>> if the writer is faster than the reader, then everything will be kept
>> into memory.  This means that using TMChans you may no longer say that
>> your program uses a constant amount of memory.  Actually, you lose a
>> lot of your space reasoning since, being concurrent processes, you
>> can't guarantee almost anything wrt. progress of the reader.
>
> Of course, you're free to use TBMChans instead, which are bounded :)

This is what I did in iteratee-stm.  The stm-chans package is very nice.

(and the results with iteratee-stm were very good as well)

John L.