[Haskell-beginners] SOLVED - Stack overflow, but hard to understand

[Magnus Therning]

On 20/10/09 20:32, Michael Mossey wrote:
> Okay, I figured this out. mapM is not lazy, at least not for a monad that
> has state and under the circumstance you demand the state out the other
> side.

If I understand what you are saying then this behaviour isn't unexpected.  If
you have a monad with state, and you ask for the final state, then it's likely
that everything happening in that particular monad will has to be evaluated.

> I may rewrite the program. Or I may consider the ISS principle.
> ("Increase the stack, stupid.")

You may also be able to improve the situation by adding a bit of strictness.
In some cases the thunks resulting from laziness can take up a lot of space.
Forcing evaluation, at well thought out locations in your program, may both
speed things up and reduce memory/stack usage.

/M

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