On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:56:20 -0700, Glynn Clements
Personally, I doubt that Haskell will ever be practical for processing very large amounts of data (e.g. larger than your system's RAM).
Well, I haven't had any problems implementing the kind of processing I've been doing. I wrote a utility to scan through a directory structure and compute SHA1 hashes of all of the files. When implemented smartly, it spends about 97% of its time in the SHA1 hash computation (A C library), so does't really have much different of an overhead of one written in a less pleasant language. Written with lazy lists, and a Haskell SHA1 is is hundreds of times slower. I don't think Haskell will be a barrier to writing something like backup software, as long as it is possible to hand the data around in chunks. Dave