[Haskell-cafe] How to use arrays efficiently?

Abhay Parvate abhay.parvate at gmail.com
Fri May 16 07:52:16 EDT 2008


As far as I know, you can't. It needs machine representable types, such as
Int, Double, Char, etc. But making a tuple of three UArray Int Double may
help.

2008/5/16 Lauri Oksanen <lassoken at gmail.com>:

> Thanks for help. I did some tests with UArray and it does the trick.
> The problem remaining is, how to implement UArray Int (Double, Double,
> Double)?
> UArray source code is far too cryptic for me.
>
> Regards,
> Lauri
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Bulat Ziganshin <
> bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Lauri,
>>
>> Friday, May 16, 2008, 12:19:29 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> >      pixelArray :: Array Int Color
>>
>> it's boxed array which means that its elements are stored as thunks
>> computed only when you actually use them. try UArray instead:
>>
>> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Modern_array_libraries
>>
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>>  Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com
>>
>>
>
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