[Haskell-cafe] Big Arrays

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello John,

Monday, October 4, 2010, 7:57:13 AM, you wrote:

> Sure it does; a 32-bit system can address much more than 2**30
> elements. Artificially limiting how much memory can be allocated by
> depending on a poorly-specced type like 'Int' is a poor design
> decision in Haskell and GHC.

are you understand that the "poor design decision" makes array access
several times faster and doesn't limit anything except for very rare huge
Bool arrays?


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