[Haskell-cafe] Squashing space leaks

[Greg Buchholz]

Daniel Fischer wrote:
> One question: the energy of the system should be constant - that little 
> physics I know. What I don't know is whether the change in energy in this 
> simulation is within usual, reasonable bounds or not. If not, is it due to a 
> too long time interval or should one use a more sophisticated algorithm?

    The change in energy is from round-off error caused by floating point
arithmetic.  For this particular test, the shootout requires everyone to use the
same algorithm.  So the error is expected.

Greg Buchholz