[Haskell-cafe] Understanding allocation behavior

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello David,

Sunday, April 9, 2006, 5:47:03 PM, you wrote:

> In an email to me, Jean-Philippe Bernardy expressed a concern that a
> large table could needlessly fill the data cache.  He proposed  
> checking 4 bits at a time and using a small table of 16 elements.   
> Not surprisingly, it isn't as fast.  I wonder what you think of  
> this.  Also, I wonder what would be a good test to demonstrate this  
> possible interaction with the cache.

it depends on the actual task, CPU and other programs running at the
same time :)  i just can say that it will be better to use array of
Word8 (with `fromIntegral` for conversion) and use `unsafeAt` for indexing



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