[Haskell-beginners] Space leak debugging

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Jun 3, 2010, at 16:18 , Philip Scott wrote:
> that if you replace the 'if' line with
>
>    if (B.null bs || i== -1) then return 1
>
> (i never equals -1) then it runs in constant space! That just  
> boggles my mind.


That's your clue:  since adding i there makes it run in constant  
space, you must be forcing its evaluation when it otherwise was just  
building thunks.  So you need to make i strict with seq or case.

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