[Haskell-cafe] The Garbage Collector Ate My Homework

[Thomas Conway]

Well, not quite, but look at the following:

118,342,689,824 bytes allocated in the heap
144,831,738,780 bytes copied during GC (scavenged)
335,086,064 bytes copied during GC (not scavenged)
255,257,516 bytes maximum residency (42 sample(s))

     222884 collections in generation 0 (3891.90s)
         42 collections in generation 1 (153.99s)

        536 Mb total memory in use

  INIT  time    0.00s  (  0.00s elapsed)
  MUT   time  233.66s  (776.99s elapsed)
  GC    time  4045.89s  (4251.52s elapsed)
  EXIT  time    0.00s  (  0.00s elapsed)
  Total time  4279.55s  (5028.52s elapsed)

  %GC time      94.5%  (84.5% elapsed)

  Alloc rate    506,470,897 bytes per MUT second

  Productivity   5.5% of total user, 4.6% of total elapsed

Can anyone offer general suggestions for how to fix this!

T.
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