[Haskell-cafe] Memory usage outside of the Haskell heap

[Joel Reymont]

On Nov 5, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

> I just checked that the memory allocated with
> Foreign.ForeignPtr.mallocForeignPtrBytes is included in the GC stats.
> Does the FastString library use its own implementation of  
> mallocForeignPtr?

Yes,

-- (internal) GC wrapper of mallocForeignPtrArray
mallocForeignPtr :: Int -> IO (ForeignPtr Word8)
mallocForeignPtr l = when (l > 1000000) performGC >>  
mallocForeignPtrArray l


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