[Haskell-cafe] +RTS -M800M

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| Is there any chance there is a bug in recent GHCs (or perhaps Linux?)
| affecting this?  I'm fairly sure I've lately seen Haskell programs
| consuming significantly larger amounts of memory than they should be
| allowed to, and I can try to isolate a test case if it is of
| interest.

New bugs are always possible!  And in the last few months, Simon has
been doing fairly major surgery on parts of the runtime system, as part
of getting multiprocessor-GHC to play nicely.  

So if you can find a test case where GHC is generating code that uses a
lot more memory than it used it, it would be very valuable to us.
Thanks!

Simon