[mercury-users] How to make huge db in Mercury

[Peter Schachte]

On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:28:23PM +1000, Ralph Becket wrote:  
> The right(ish) thing to do is, indeed, use io__read to slurp in the data 
> from an external file (unfortunate because your executable is now two
> files)

... or perhaps change the compiler to allow ground terms to be
represented without having a variable for every subterm?  Call it
hyper homogeneous form.

> or (and this may leave a strange taste in the mouth) use
> io__read_from_string on a string constant.

Phtht!  I'm still shuddering.

I can't see why there should be *any* runtime cost (not even GC cost)
associated with constant terms.


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