QUESTION: "I read in a newspaper that in l981 you said '640K of memory should be enough for anybody.' What did you mean when you said this?"
ANSWER: "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time." http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,1484,00.html Dell's Poweredge servers address up to 32GB of memory today! There are already 5.7 billion people on the planet (>2^31) and 741 million phone lines. In my mind, there is NO QUESTION that 2^31 keys is a reasonable size for a FiniteMap or will be in the very very near future. Moreover, it is not clear that the CPU/memory overhead of returning Integer rather than Int for sizeFM is sufficiently high to be worth bothering the programmer about. -Alex- _________________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 14:32, Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > > Dear GHC developers, > > > > Probably, it is better to provide Integer > > or Integral a => a > > instead of Int > > in the function > > sizeFM :: FiniteMap k e -> Int > > > > What do you think of this? > > Are you planning to put more than 2^31 entries into your FiniteMap? > I don't think I could afford a machine with the >16GB of ram necessary > to do that. > > I guess this same argument took place over the Prelude.length function. > The conclusion was to add List.genericLength :: Num a => [b] -> a > > Duncan > > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
