[Haskell-cafe] Current heap size and other runtime statistics -- API for accessing in GHC?

[Edward Z. Yang]

Simon Marlow and I had this conversation not too long ago, and the answer
is no. However, this is definitely something that would be useful for
a lot of people (GHC developers included!)

Cheers,
Edward

Excerpts from Ryan Newton's message of Sun Apr 10 17:30:50 -0400 2011:
> Hi cafe,
> 
> The rtsopts (-s etc) can provide some nice debugging information regarding
> memory management.  And System.Mem.performGC can initiate garbage
> collection.  But are there APIs for querying the current state of the heap?
>  I've googled and come up dry.
> 
> In this case I'm running benchmarks and for the sake of fair comparison I
> want to make sure that everything from a previous run is cleaned up before
> the next run.
> 
> Thanks,
>   -Ryan