[Haskell-cafe] Re: How efficient is read?

[Stephen Tetley]

On 9 May 2010 11:42, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

>> If you want to parse a stream, you don't want Parsec ___ as it
>> isn't an online parser - online meaning 'streaming' i.e. it can
>> produce some results during the 'work' rather than a single result at
>> the end.
>
> I thought this was one of the new features in Parsec-3...

Hi Ivan

Possibly?

If so, maybe the authors ought to mention it in the cabal.file /
package description. I know it can use bytestrings which have
efficiency advantages over String, but that doesn't make it online.


Best wishes

Stephen