Dealing with large files in Haskell

Question

I have a large file (4+ gigs) of, lets just say, 4 byte floats. I would like to treat it as List, in the sense that I would like to be able to use map, filter, foldl, etc. Howev

Answer 1

You should not treat it as a [Double] or [Float] in memory. What you could do is use one of the list-like packed array types, such as uvector/vector/... in company with mmapFile or readFile to pull chunks of the file in at a time, and process them. Or use a lazy packed array type, equivalent to lazy bytestrings.