[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Top Level <-

Ashley Yakeley ashley at semantic.org
Fri Sep 5 15:18:25 EDT 2008


Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote:
> Ashley Yakeley wrote:
> 
>> I really don't know enough about the RTS to know. The
>> alternative would be to keep all initialised values
>> when the module is unloaded. I'm guessing this is more
>> feasible.
> 
> Easier, but a guaranteed memory leak.

But it's limited to the initialisers. An IORef holding an Integer isn't 
much memory, and it only ever gets leaked once.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley


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