On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Jean-Philippe Bernardy <jeanphilippe.berna...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:00 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> After a fair bit of hacking, that turned out to be a workable >> solution. I just stored ArticleDB in it (don't need anything else). >> Had a bit of trouble working out the monads and was shortly flummoxed >> by the Initializable stuff > >>(until I realized that that typeclass was >> how the case of no-defined-variable was handled, by calling the >> 'initial' function) > > It would help if you documented the parts that were opaque to you; > a patch with haddock comments would be great.
I'll see if I can do some documenting this week. It's not all that clear where the Haddocks would go, though - one can't really use the Buffer.Misc functions without putA/getA, and I'm not really sure what they do without those functions. Do I put the comment about what Initializable means by the typeclass or somewhere else? >> But the initial load is still several seconds. How would Data.Binary >> help there? Is it intended to be a faster version of '(read $ readFile >> foo) :: ArticleDB)'? > > Yep. > > Cheers, > -- JP. I've been looking, and it looks like that might work. At least, Data.Binary claims http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/binary/0.5/doc/html/Data-Binary.html to have a 'Binary e => Binary (Seq e)', and I'm sure there's an instance for String/[Char]. I wonder whether binary-strict might not be better though? -- gwern --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
