[Haskell-cafe] I would like a clarification about Enumerators and Iteratees, please :)

[Alfredo Di Napoli]

Hi guys,

I've started playing with Iteratee and Enumerators: very cool and addictive stuff.

I have wrote this simple code:

https://gist.github.com/3899017

In a nutshell, it gives back the number of occurences for a single char in case the argument passed from the command line is a single char,

or the number of lines of the entire file.

I've tried it first on a small file (~100MB) and then on a huge one (~3GB). As far as I understood Iteratee IO should be a smart way to do IO,

avoiding to keep the entire file in memory; what I observe in the second case, instead, is a sort of memory leak. The memory grows and grows

until the entire machine hangs.

If I split the huge file in "small" chunks, memory comsumption is still high but the computation terminates and is fast.

So my two questions:

a) What am I missing? Should be memory used be constant? And how can I achieve this purpose?

b) I'm using the package enumerator because as far as I can see is the most used. How does it compares with "iteratee"? Which of the two are more performant?

Bye and thanks,

A.

[Gregory Collins]

You have a space leak in "countCharBS". Put a bang pattern on your accumulator.

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