[Haskell-cafe] Program using 500MB RAM to process 5MB file
Ketil Malde
ketil at malde.org
Fri Apr 3 04:22:07 EDT 2009
lucas at die.net.au writes:
> I'm relatively new to haskell so as one does, I am rewriting an
> existing program in haskell to help learn the language.
> However, it eats up all my RAM whenever I run the program.
This typically happens to me when I parse large files and either am a)
using a parser that is too strict (like Luke says) or b) using a
parser that is too lazy - or rather, it parses into a lazy data
structure which is then populated with unevaluated thunks holding onto
the input data.
Also, you probably want memory profiling (+RTS -h and friends), not
time profiling (+RTS -p).
-k
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