[Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

[Jeremy Shaw]

At Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:21:00 -0200,
Maurí­cio wrote:
> 
> Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH escreveu:
> > 
> > On Oct 21, 2007, at 14:40 , Maurí cio wrote:
> > 
> >> I like Haskell, and use it as my main
> >> language. However, compiling a Haskell program
> >> usually takes a lot of memory and CPU. 

Last night I was running top, and noticed cc1 consuming 101MB of RAM
:) I have also seen ar (the thing that makes .a files) consume > 512MB
of RAM. So, perhaps GHC is just trying to keep up with C :)

j.