Don Stewart wrote: >> Which, incidentally, also explains why Don couldn't reproduce it on a 64- >> bit system. There, instead of hanging for about a minute before printing >> out the list, it would hang for about 4 billion minutes.
A billion minutes here, a billion minutes there, and pretty soon you're talking about enough time to brew a nice cup of tea. > It's also interesting how our 32 bit machines are fast enough now > to make Int indices noticeably problematic. And thankfully, 64 bit > machines are common enough now that the 32 bit Int issues are less of > an issue. Alas, we've swapped that for a big performance slowdown due to the doubled size of pointers, courtesy of STG's addiction thereto. <b _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe