[Haskell-cafe] out of core computing in haskell

[Andrew Coppin]

Carter T Schonwald wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> I'm not quite sure if I'm posing this question correctly, but what 
> facilities currently exist in haskell to nicely deal with 
> datastructures that won't fit within a given machine's ram?
> And if there are no such facilities, what would it take to fix that?

If you just want to process a big chunk of data from one end to the 
other without loading it all into RAM at once... that's fairly easy. 
Haskell is a lazy language. By playing with functions such as 
getContents, you can automatically load the data as you access it. No 
tricky programming required.

If you're asking for something more specific -- e.g., "how do I talk to 
a standard database like Oracle / MySql / et al.", there are a couple of 
libraries for that. (Unfortunately, no one standard one.) See Stefan's 
answer.

I'd you'd like to be more specific about what you'd like to do...