[Haskell-cafe] Need help - my haskell code is over 50 times slower than equivalent perl implementation

[Nicolas Trangez]

On Tue, 2014-06-24 at 12:08 -0500, Stuart A. Kurtz wrote:
> Might it be more efficient to bypass counting altogether, and just use the Haskell version of stat?
> 
> getFileSize :: FilePath -> IO Int64
> getFileSize path = do
> 	stat <- getFileStatus path
> 	let COff fs = fileSize stat
> 	return fs

Obviously. I assumed the original author would do something else while
processing the file, not just count bytes...

Nicolas