Is fixing GHC arrays a big research job or is it something that someone can straightforwardly handle if my site actually gets enough traffic to warrant it? -Alex- On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

| But in managing this tradeoff, what is faster: | * constructing/destructing e.g. 16 trees (for a 65000 item table) | * 2 memcpy of 256 item arrays (perhaps after you primop?) | | If the later is not dramatically slower than I | will bias towards more arrayness.

I doubt the latter is dramatically slower, but you'd have to experiment to find out. And GHC is not doing as well as it should on arrays just now. (One of the things on our to-do list.) Might vary between implementations too.

Simon

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