Hi there, I tested below program with for x filled in 1 and 50000. And I saw that when I used 50000 it took more than ten times more time than when I used 1, to complete the expression. So much for randow access memory(RAM). Isn't there somekind of other array that really works with random access? module Test where import IOExts data Lesson = Lesson String Int Int String String deriving Show main = do testing <- newIOArray (0,60000) (Lesson "Hallo" 0 0 "" "") sequence(map(writeIOArray testing x) (test)) a<-readIOArray testing 0 putStr (decompose a) test::[Lesson] test=(replicate 100000 (Lesson "" 1 2 "" "")) decompose (Lesson s1 _ _ _ _) = s1 Greets Ron __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com