Re: static constants -- ideas?

Jason Dusek jason.dusek@gmail.com:

Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:

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The trick I usually use in cases like this is to compile the data as C code and link against it, then access it from Haskell via a Ptr.

For my particular application, I really need to ship a single static binary that has it all -- data as well as algorithms -- so I'm going with the FFI. It's too bad that I end up working in the IO monad much of the time. I hope we'll have massive static constants someday soon!

unsafePerformIO should be safe on constants, right? It has worked for me, at least. Jay