How to read heap Profile?

Ken Shan ken@digitas.harvard.edu
Sat, 6 Oct 2001 01:01:54 -0400


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On 2001-10-06T12:46:38+0800, Saswat Anand wrote:
>   Ghc doc does not say much about how to read the heap profile (.hp
> file). Could somebody explain. And how can one tell from the graph
> generated by hp2ps if the program has space leak.

Check out Colin Runciman's papers at
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/jfp/bibliography/Authors/runcimancolin.html ,
in particular "Heap profiling of lazy functional programs".

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