Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] Questions about slow GC with STArray

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:

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Are those the only legal contents of STUArray?

numbers, chars, vanilla pointers. UArray just mimics C arrays, after all

I haven't gotten to learning about them in detail yet, but my hope was that STUArray was like vector<T> in C++, and STArray was like vector. Both are fairly general. So if I need a array of complex numbers in Haskell, will I need an extra level of indirection compared to C? And in addition to that some serious issues with GC speed if those arrays need to be mutable?