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If the standard lazy IO operations are proving to be a bottleneck,
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Before continuing, I strongly recommend reading [[Performance/Strings]] first. Fast I/O and string handling overlap in many places, so this page will only discuss the parts that are not specific to strings.
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buffer-based IO is an alternative (hGetBuf/hPutBuf). This can be
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particularly effective when combined with packed strings.
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== Iteratee I/O ==
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[[Iteratee I/O|Iteratees]] are a relatively new approach to streaming I/O. If your code uses I/O extensively (for example, in a web server), iteratees are the best way to do it.
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Using the [http://hackage.haskell.org/package/conduit Conduit] library, a program to read a file and pipe it to stdout can be written as follows:
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<haskell>
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main = runResourceT (sourceFile "test.txt" $$ sinkHandle stdout)
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== Other solutions ==
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If this is too high-level for you,
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buffer-based IO is an alternative (<code>hGetBuf</code>/<code>hPutBuf</code>). This can be
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particularly effective when combined with packed strings (see [[wc]]).
Some external libraries also provide memory mapped IO.
Some external libraries also provide memory mapped IO.
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In 2006, someone came up with a solution called [[Library/Streams|Streams]]. However, it does not seem to be maintained anymore.

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Haskell Performance Resource

Constructs:
Data Types - Functions
Overloading - FFI - Arrays
Strings - Integers - I/O
Floating point - Concurrency
Modules - Monads

Techniques:
Strictness - Laziness
Avoiding space leaks
Accumulating parameter

Implementation-Specific:
GHC - nhc98 - Hugs
Yhc - JHC

Before continuing, I strongly recommend reading Performance/Strings first. Fast I/O and string handling overlap in many places, so this page will only discuss the parts that are not specific to strings.

1 Iteratee I/O

Iteratees are a relatively new approach to streaming I/O. If your code uses I/O extensively (for example, in a web server), iteratees are the best way to do it.

Using the Conduit library, a program to read a file and pipe it to stdout can be written as follows: 

main = runResourceT (sourceFile "test.txt" $$ sinkHandle stdout)

2 Other solutions

If this is too high-level for you, buffer-based IO is an alternative (hGetBuf/hPutBuf). This can be particularly effective when combined with packed strings (see wc).

Some external libraries also provide memory mapped IO.

In 2006, someone came up with a solution called Streams. However, it does not seem to be maintained anymore.

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