[C2hs] Re: support for 6.4

[Duncan Coutts]

On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 09:56 +0200, Gour wrote:
> Duncan Coutts (duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk) wrote:
> 
> > Yes I think that's right. I did quite a bit of profiling work last year
> > and I didn't notice anything that looked to me like a space leak.
> 
> Huh...I'm a little bit puzzled now 'cause on dev list the discussion was
> going on about 'space leaks'.

Well it wasn't me :-). The typical cause of vast memory consumption is a
space leak, so it's often something people mention.

> Anyway, the facts remains the same for the end user: it's not possible
> to build gtk2hs without having enormous amount of RAM.
> 
> > Both reasonable. We'll keep that in mind if we try for a heap reduction
> > patch.
> 
> Am I right assuming that this could be even more difficult than fixing
> (non-existant) space leak?

Hard to say. :-)

It means changing algorithms and/or data structures rather than trying
to indentify and understand space leaks.

> > I think if I were to try this again, I'd try and make the name analysis
> > phase into an external algorithm, keeping as much of the various finite
> > maps in external files for most of the time.
> 
> Let me know if I can help with some sort of testing.

Ok.

Duncan