Memory usage

[snap9]

It looks like Conduit, in the case of lists, focuses on streaming data through a pipe one element at a time.

• Does this mean the max memory use is (roughly) the memory size of each element in the list?
• Do most people using Conduit just use the default 1-element approach and find it fast enough?
• Can we customize the memory usage? For instance, make it stream 10 values at once. (I'm talking about doing so under the hood, even if it still looks like a 1-element stream to the programmer.) This would increase memory usage 10x but could improve execution time.

[snoyberg]

You can use techniques like streaming a Vector instead of a single value. conduit-combinators provides many helper functions for that case, as well as Text and Bytestring.

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[snap9]

@snoyberg Thanks for the tips. Just to clarify, you're suggesting I use [Vector a] instead of [a]. It would now be my responsibility to pack as many values as I want (for instance 10 values) into these vectors.

So it's not like conduit has some magic to pack more values. I'd have to do it myself using Vector, adjust the number of elements myself, and benchmark for myself which works best.

Am I understanding correctly?

[snoyberg]

Essentially, yes. Some convenience functions like foldMapCE will choose a size for the vector based on other constraints.

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2017, 7:22 PM snap9 ***@***.***> wrote: @snoyberg <https://github.com/snoyberg> Thanks for the tips. Just to clarify, if streamed a vector (a list of vectors, I presume), it would now be my responsibility to pack as many values as I want (for instance 10 values) into these vectors, wouldn't it? So it's not like conduit has some magic to pack more values. I'd have to do it myself using Vector and adjust the number of elements myself and benchmark for myself which works best. Am I understanding correctly? — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#297 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADBBygVa2Mu9TKafpmb_YhAE9lVL28dks5rbz_igaJpZM4L6_aO> .