[Haskell-cafe] possible memory leak in uvector 0.1.0.3

[Manlio Perillo]

Bulat Ziganshin ha scritto:
> Hello Manlio,
> 
> Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 5:35:33 PM, you wrote:
> 
>> There are 100,000,000 ratings, so I create 100,000,000 arrays containing
>> only one element.
> 
> every array needs ~30 bytes - it's a minimal memory block ghc can
> alloc for variable-sized objects. multiple this by 3 to account for
> copying GC behavior
> 

Ok, this explains memory usage; thanks.


IMHO, this informations should go in the wiki; they may be insignificant 
for normal applications, but when one starts to deal with huge amount of 
data, 10 bytes per item make an important difference.



Manlio Perillo