You don't want (map q' (range dom)) to be computed for each call of q, do you. To make GHC realise that this expression does not depend on the arguments, you need the "full laziness" transformation, which you get with -0. GHCi doesn't use -O, though. So do this ghc -c Foo.hs -O ghci Foo.hs and away you go. (p 100) is fast. Alternatively, define (map q' (range dom)) as a top-level value; that will work without -O. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell-users- | bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Lajos Nagy | Sent: 27 April 2006 23:58 | To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | Subject: Dynamic Programming with Memoizing | | | Well, I got stuck. I wanted to use dynamic programming to compute the | value `p 100': | | ================================ | | module Main where | | import Data.Ratio | import Data.Ix | | n = 100 | | q :: (Integer, Integer) -> Rational | q (i,k) | i == 1 && k == 2 = 1 | q (i,k) = (map q' (range dom)) !! (dom `index` (i,k)) | where dom = ((1,1),(n,n)) | q' (i,k) = (p i * ((n + 1 - k) % 1)) / ((n + 1 - i) % 1) | | p :: Integer -> Rational | p k | k == 1 = 1 | p k = map p' [1 .. n] !! ((1,n) `index` k) | where p' k = sum (map f [1 .. (k - 1)]) | where f i = q (i,k) / ((n + 1 - i) % 1) | | ====================== | | I used the lazy list pattern for memoizing previous values of `p' and `q' | as I saw it elsewhere. Both `p k' and `q (i,k)' depend only on values of | `p x' and `q (y,x)' where `x < k' and `y < k'. Nevertheless, it takes | forever to compute even `p 20'. What's wrong? (I even tried using a | strict container along the lines of `N !Rational' for storing the results | of `p' and `q'. It didn't help.) | | The program seems to work correctly for small values of `k', by the way. | | I used Rational because I needed the _exact_ result. | | Thanks and Regards, | | -- Lajos Nagy | Computer Science Ph.D. Student, Florida Institute of Technology | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users