I tend to deal a lot with very very large data files in Haskell and my current approach to dealing with getting data out of one program an into another is writing it to a file using 'show' and then reading it in using 'read'. Unfortunately, this is very slow and produces very large files which are very slow to read and write. Is there another option? I don't care about H98 compatibility, so if there's a way to somehow just dump ghc's internal representation (I also don't care about x-platformness) to a file and read it back, that would be excellent. Other suggestions are welcome too :). -- Hal Daume III "Computer science is no more about computers | hdaume@isi.edu than astronomy is about telescopes." -Dijkstra | www.isi.edu/~hdaume