[Haskell-cafe] Data.Array.Storable vs GC

[David F. Place]

On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 17:32 +0300, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello David,
> 
> Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 5:27:51 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > When I was researching how to do this, I was really hoping for something
> > like "static areas" from the Lisp Machine operating system.  You could
> > allocate any normal object in an area of the heap where the GC would not
> > bother with it.  I miss that.  I wonder why GHC doesn't have such a
> > concept?
> 
> it has. bytestrings use this area, it's called "pinned arrays"
> 

Thanks. I'll look into it.  BTW, running my program with the compacting
GC improved efficiency dramatically.  Your initial idea that it was my
other data was my other data was absolutely correct.