[Haskell-cafe] Haskell poker server

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:41:20PM +0200, Joel Reymont wrote:
>> Erlang does this nicely, I replied to the LtU thread. I positively
>> got the impression that nobody was parsing binary data in Haskell ;).
>
> I am doing this quite often, I apologize for not sharing my experience
> and promise to improve ;-)
>
> BTW, if efficiency is not a primary concern, Parsec can be quite nice
> for decoding binary messages of many protocols.
>

I'd quite like to see some benchmarks for Parsec parsers compiled with 
jhc, I can't help thinking that the optimisations involved would make them 
go much faster. Not really practical right here and right now AFAIK, but 
hey.

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