[Haskell-cafe] Re: Looking for the fastest Haskell primes
Jules Bean
jules at jellybean.co.uk
Thu Apr 16 07:23:51 EDT 2009
Eugene Kirpichov wrote:
> The parameterless version is a top-level definition and won't get
> garbage-collected, IIRC.
This has not-much to do with CAFs and is really just about scope +
values + liveness. live values (those which a program still refers to,
e.g. from a function which might get called in the future) don't get GCed.
CAFs are just in the top-most scope and particularly likely to get held
live in this fashion.
As Lennart points out, optimisations occasionally increase sharing,
although GHC tries fairly hard not to do this.
Jules
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