Warp wrote:
>   But hey, that's the fad in modern programming: Memory usage and speed
> are irrelevant. Processors are getting faster and memory amounts are
> doubling every couple of years, so who cares if something like a string
> takes 12 times as much memory as it could?

Depends on the size of the string, really. If my 100-byte string holding 
an email address turns into 1200 bytes, I'm not really going to worry 
about it much. :-)  Agreed, really big strings where you're actually 
starting to cause significant paging can be a problem, but you're really 
just hitting the wall earlier in Haskell than in other impelmentation.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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