Re: [Haskell-cafe] newbie question about list performance

2007-10-29 Thread Jules Bean
John Lato wrote: I'm working with moderate-sized files (tens to hundreds of MBs) that have some ascii header data followed by a bunch of 32-bit ints. but I don't know if [Int32] is actually the best choice. It seems to me that something like a lazy list of strict arrays (analogous to a lazy

[Haskell-cafe] newbie question about list performance

2007-10-28 Thread John Lato
Hello, I've been following the list optimization thread with great interest, as it pertains to something I'm working on at the moment. I'm working with moderate-sized files (tens to hundreds of MBs) that have some ascii header data followed by a bunch of 32-bit ints. I can read the files into a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] newbie question about list performance

2007-10-28 Thread Don Stewart
jwlato: Hello, I've been following the list optimization thread with great interest, as it pertains to something I'm working on at the moment. I'm working with moderate-sized files (tens to hundreds of MBs) that have some ascii header data followed by a bunch of 32-bit ints. I can read the