[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hiding side effects in a data structure

"Cale Gibbard" writes:

On 21/10/2007, Jon Fairbairn wrote:

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No, they (or at least links to them) typically are that bad! Mind you, as far as fragment identification is concerned, so are a lot of html pages. But even if the links do have fragment ids, pdfs still impose a significant overhead: I don't want stuff swapped out just so that I can run a pdf viewer; a web browser uses up enough resources as it is. And will Hoogle link into pdfs?

Swapped out!? What PDF viewer are you running on what machine? Currently, with a 552 page book open (Hatcher's algebraic topology), my PDF viewer (Evince) uses about 36MiB,

If loading another 36MiB doesn't cause swapping, you're obviously not running enough haskell programmes. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk