[Haskell-cafe] Difficult memory leak in array processing

Udo Stenzel u.stenzel at web.de
Thu Nov 23 07:39:36 EST 2006


Niko Korhonen wrote:
> I have the following code whose purpose is to add dither (noise) to a given
> array. The code looks very straightforward but apparently it has a memory leak
> somewhere.

No, it doesn't.  It can't, because it doesn't even compile.  After
correcting the obvious

>         (lo, hi) <- getBounds buf

to

          let (lo,hi) = bounds buf

it just works and needs 40MB plus epsilon.  Your problem has to be
somewhere else.


-Udo.
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