Carter T Schonwald wrote:
Hello Everyone, I'm not quite sure if I'm posing this question correctly, but what facilities currently exist in haskell to nicely deal with datastructures that won't fit within a given machine's ram? And if there are no such facilities, what would it take to fix that?
If you just want to process a big chunk of data from one end to the other without loading it all into RAM at once... that's fairly easy. Haskell is a lazy language. By playing with functions such as getContents, you can automatically load the data as you access it. No tricky programming required. If you're asking for something more specific -- e.g., "how do I talk to a standard database like Oracle / MySql / et al.", there are a couple of libraries for that. (Unfortunately, no one standard one.) See Stefan's answer. I'd you'd like to be more specific about what you'd like to do...