[Haskell-beginners] Space leak debugging

[Philip Scott]

Hi Daniel,

>
>> It runs forever, which is fine, but it doesn't run in constant space. In
>> fact, it gobbles up all the memory until it can't get any more and dies.
>> I can't for the life of me work out what is going on, surely there is
>> some enormous thunk being built up somewhere,
>>      
> Yep.
>
> chunkFiller 0 bs
> ~>  chunkFiller (0+1) bs
> ~>  chunkFiller ((0+1)+1) bs
> ~>  chunkFiller (((0+1)+1)+1) bs
> ~>  ...
>    
You are entirely right, thank you! I was totally fixated on the 
bytestring, I never even considered it might be something to do with my 
inncoent looking accumulator :)

You guys are awesome.

- Phil