[erlang-questions] Not an Erlang fan

[Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB)]

Thomas Lindgren wrote:
> 
> Also, when I consider the use of io:get_line/2, it
> seems it may be "too easy" to choose a suboptimal
> solution to some problems. That can be a problem in
> situations like this, when the user base grows quickly
> outside the core community and the new users thus
> can't rely on helpful insiders.

There were some suggestions on how to perform line-
oriented I/O much faster in Erlang, in this post
and the replies that followed:

http://www.erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2007-June/027557.html

The problem I ran into was actually lack of flow control:
data flowed in so fast that the receiving end couldn't
keep up, even with minimal processing.

BR,
Ulf W