[Haskell-cafe] Real-time garbage collection for Haskell

Curt Sampson cjs at starling-software.com
Tue Mar 9 00:36:14 EST 2010


On 2010-03-05 10:50 +0100 (Fri), Henning Thielemann wrote:

> Curt Sampson schrieb:
>> Understanding the general techniques for this sort of thing and seeing
>> where you're likely to need to apply them isn't all that difficult, once
>> you understand the problem. (It's probably much easier if you don't have
>> to work it out all for yourself, as I did. Someone needs to write the
>> "how to manage lazyness in Haskell" guide.)
>
> My attempt in this direction:
>  http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Laziness_is_not_always_good
>  http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Maintaining_laziness

Unfortunately, neither of these address the problem of the day-to-day
programmer: "what are the typical ways I introduce space leaks, and how
do I stop doing that?"

cjs
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