Re: Binary files in Haskell

[Olivier Lefevre]

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This thread and particularly the following passage:

   "If I understand this right, you're suggesting essentially dumping 
    out part of the Haskell heap to a file."

reminds me very strongly of APL, where dumping the current state of
the system into a binary file that you can later reload (and resume
your work where you left it) has always been a possibility. This was
useful not just for interactive work but also for breaking down large
computations and escape the reaper built into the mainframe's batch 
queue :) Is it anything of the kind that Runciman is working on or 
something less ambitious?

Regards,

-- O.l.
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