[Haskell-cafe] How on Earth Do You Reason about Space?

[malcolm.wallace]

ad a) heap consumption is too high for two reasons: firstly, the actual data I
care about is much less than there's data on the heap. Secondly, about half the
heap space is in LAG state. Here are profiles that will illustrate this:
http://imgur.com/wBWmJ&XN1mW&ltYNR.

- The first image shows 50% of the heap space being gobbled up with data that
shouldn't be there anymore (LAG)
- The second image shows the types that are in LAG state: ByteString and
HashMap. So, it seems I'm keeping around hash maps?
 

In Lag/Drag/Void/Use profiling, Lag is actually heap cells that are created too _early_.  (Drag are those that are kept for longer than necessary.)  Lots of Lag generally means your program is too strict - it is forcing structure long before it needs to.  To fix it, you need to make things lazier.  My first suspicion would fall on ByteString.

Regards,
    Malcolm
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