[Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell

2007-08-13 Thread Carter T Schonwald
Hello Everyone, I'm not quite sure if I'm posing this question correctly, but what facilities currently exist in haskell to nicely deal with datastructures that won't fit within a given machine's ram? And if there are no such facilities, what would it take to fix that? thanks -Carter

Re: [Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell

2007-08-13 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 12:29:25PM -0700, Carter T Schonwald wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm not quite sure if I'm posing this question correctly, but what facilities currently exist in haskell to nicely deal with datastructures that won't fit within a given machine's ram? And if there are no

Re: [Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew Coppin
Carter T Schonwald wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm not quite sure if I'm posing this question correctly, but what facilities currently exist in haskell to nicely deal with datastructures that won't fit within a given machine's ram? And if there are no such facilities, what would it take to fix

Re: [Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell

2007-08-13 Thread Carter T Schonwald
Message From: Andrew Coppin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 3:55:57 PM Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell Carter T Schonwald wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm not quite sure if I'm posing this question correctly, but what facilities

Re: [Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell

2007-08-13 Thread David Roundy
In the second case, if your numerical data is just a big array, why not just mmap it? Unless you're running on a 32 bit machine, or have a *seriously* large amount of data, that seems like the easiest option. Although if you're talking about mutable data, that's a whole 'nother can of worms... but