Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting Tomasz Zielonka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > It seems I qualify as almost nobody, Yes, that's why I said "almost". I am also aware of a very, very small number of exceptions. (Disclaimer: I work in the database server area for a living, so I'm possibly only thinking of the needs o

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread ajb
G'day all. Quoting "S. Alexander Jacobson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why not? Its only 17gb. How many databases do you think there are with 2^34 or more records, each of which is a byte in size? Cheers, Andrew Bromage ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [EMAI

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > The data you provided is interesting. However, if I had such a machine, > my work could be much less challenging :) I would note that people today are making strenuous efforts to retain compatibility with a Haskell98 standard that it only 6 years old!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > The data you provided is interesting. However, if I had such a machine, > my work could be much less challenging :) I would note that people today are making strenuous efforts to retain compatibility with a Haskell98 standard that it only 6 years old!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 02:05:06PM -0400, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote: > On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > It seems I qualify as almost nobody, cause I've had a database with more > > than 2^34 records on a sin

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread S. Alexander Jacobson
On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Tomasz Zielonka wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I would note, in addition, that they don't have that many pages indexed > > on a single machine. Almost nobody has a database with that many records > > on a single machine, even th

[Haskell-cafe] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread Tomasz Zielonka
On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 08:43:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > And re sizeFM, I would note that Google has more > > than 2^31 pages indexed in memory. > > I would note, in addition, that they don't have that many pages indexed > on a single machine. Almost nobody has a database with that

[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Re: sizeFM type

2004-04-27 Thread Ketil Malde
[Moved to -cafe at SPJ's request] "Serge D. Mechveliani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 10:09:18PM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: >> "Serge D. Mechveliani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> length :: [a] -> Integer >>>