Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Big Arrays

2010-10-04 Thread Hemanth Kapila
Just out of curiosity, may I know a use case of such huge arrays? At such sizes, I thought, the array would not have the expected array properties (constant access time) due to thrashing. thanks, Hemanth ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Big Arrays

2010-10-04 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Monday, October 4, 2010, 7:57:13 AM, you wrote: Sure it does; a 32-bit system can address much more than 2**30 elements. Artificially limiting how much memory can be allocated by depending on a poorly-specced type like 'Int' is a poor design decision in Haskell and GHC. are you

Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Big Arrays

2010-10-04 Thread John Millikin
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 01:51, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Hello John, Monday, October 4, 2010, 7:57:13 AM, you wrote: Sure it does; a 32-bit system can address much more than 2**30 elements. Artificially limiting how much memory can be allocated by depending on a