13 Mar
2010
13 Mar
'10
7:49 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Arnoldo Muller
Jason,
I am trying to use haskell in the analysis of bio data. One of the main reasons I wanted to use haskell is because lazy I/O allows you to see a large bio-sequence as if it was a string in memory. In order to achieve the same result in an imperative language I would have to write lots of error-prone iterators. I saw lazy I/O as a very strong point in favor of Haskell.
What about mmap function? It's available on Linux, you can use it on C and probably a lot of other imperative languages. Was the non-portability factor the issue with using it?