[Haskell-cafe] Derving NFData via Generics from a type that has a vector doesn't work. (was trying to understand out of memory exceptions)

[Andres Löh]

Hi Anatoly.

I don't think that the normal deepseq package currently provides
generic deriving at all. This doesn't have anything to do with vector.
There's a default implementation for rnf that defines it to be seq,
which is not what you want in this case, of course. There are
additional packages that implement such functionality, though.

By using deepseq-generics, you can import Control.DeepSeq.Generics and
then define

> instance NFData Simple where rnf = genericRnf

Cheers,
  Andres

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