[Haskell-beginners] Large tables and GHC.

[Patrick LeBoutillier]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Sherard D. <scdames at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of rather large byte tables that I'd like to use. I decided
> to use them as arrays because I figured such large tables wouldn't work well
> as lists.
>
> table1 = listArray (0, 25599) [...]
> table2 = listArray (0, 25599) [...]
>
> This is how my code looks, minus the large tables. However, the problem is
> that the large tables are loaded as a list first, and then converted to an
> array. This is indeed a very big problem, as trying to compile with GHC
> takes an unacceptably long time.


If compilating time is only an issue while developping, maybe you can
put your tables in a separate module? That way they only get compiled
once (or when you change them) and they don't get recompiled when you
change the rest of your program.

Patrick

>
> Is there any way I can get around this?
>
>
> - Sherard
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