[Haskell-cafe] State Variables

Matthew Bromberg mattcbro at earthlink.net
Mon May 29 12:04:56 EDT 2006


What is the difference between the ForeignArray defined in this source 
and the StorableArray?  The source code of both modules are very similar.



Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello minh,
>
> Monday, May 29, 2006, 2:01:29 PM, you wrote:
>
>   
>> hi,
>>     
>
>   
>> Bulat, i quote the doc for Data.Array.Storable :
>> "It is similar to IOUArray but slower. Its advantage is that it's
>> compatible with C."
>> So you speak about Storable because Matthew wants to use BLAS and LAPACK ?
>>     
>
> of course. IOUArray can't be used together with external libs. and if
> someone need this fast speed together with FFI, he can switch to ghc
> 6.5 or use module i attached here
>
>
>   


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