[Haskell-cafe] Trying to reduce memory costs of String duplicates

[Felipe Lessa]

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 01:35:08AM +0200, Günther Schmidt wrote:
> However so far I'm unable to tell wether this actually works or not,
> I tried it a couple of times under different settings but it showed
> to difference in memory consumption. The same mem peeks as before.

You may want to use 'vacuum', it shows how data is internally
represented on GHC, including sharing.

--
Felipe.