jay:
Jason Dusek jason.dusek@gmail.com:
I have an awkward programming problem -- I need to take a dictionary, parse it, build a bunch of intermediate lists and then make maps and tries out of the list. A "programming problem" because it's taken me a fair amount of effort to pull together the parser and list generator -- and "awkward" because a 69000 item list, [(String, [(String, String)])], does not compile under GHC (stack overflow).
I also have constants that are too large to compile. I am resigned to loading them from data files--other solutions seem even worse.
With data files:
- The program starts up more slowly. - The code is more complex. - There may be some hassles with laziness. - Distributing the executable is not as simple.
Data.Binary eases the irritation somewhat.
Did you try bytestring literals (and maybe parsing them in-memory with Data.Binary)? -- Don