Compiling large source files

[Serge D. Mechveliani]

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 09:12:37AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> I suggest not using Haskell for your list.  Put the data in a file and 
> read it at runtime, or put it in a static C array and link it in.
> 
> On 03/08/2009 22:09, G?nther Schmidt wrote:
> >Hi Thomas,
> >yes, a source file with a single literal list with 85k elements.


People,
when a program only defines and returns a String constant of  n  
literals, how much memory needs ghc-6.10.4 to compile it ?
O(n), or may be O(n^2), or ...

Regards, 

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Serge Mechveliani
mechvel at botik.ru