[Haskell-cafe] memory-efficient data type for Netflix data - UArray Int Int vs UArray Int Word8

[Kenneth Hoste]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 19:57 , Don Stewart wrote:

> bos:
>> 2009/2/23 Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste at ugent.be>
>>
>>
>>    Does anyone know why the Word8 version is not significantly  
>> better in terms
>>    of memory usage?
>>
>>
>> Yes, because there's a typo on line 413 of Data/Array/Vector/Prim/ 
>> BUArr.hs.
>>
>> How's that for service? :-)
>
> UArray or UArr?

Well, I'm using UArray, but I'm willing to consider other suitable  
containers...
As long as they are memory efficient. :-)

The typical usage of a UArray will be getting all it's contents,
and converting it to a list to easily manipulate (filter, ...).

So, maybe another data type allows me to store the data in a limited  
amount of memory
(which is my main concern now)...

K.

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