On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Arnoldo Muller <arnoldomul...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jason, > > I am trying to use haskell in the analysis of bio data. One of the main > reasons I wanted to use haskell is because lazy I/O allows you to see a > large bio-sequence as if it was a string in memory. > In order to achieve the same result in an imperative language I would have > to write lots of error-prone iterators. I saw lazy I/O as a very strong > point in favor of Haskell. >
What about mmap function? It's available on Linux, you can use it on C and probably a lot of other imperative languages. Was the non-portability factor the issue with using it? _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
