[Haskell-cafe] ANN: stm-conduit-0.2.1
Clark Gaebel
cgaebel at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Sun Feb 12 18:41:38 CET 2012
I added that after reading his feedback, and seeing the flaw in using
TMChans.
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 1:47 AM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:
> On 2/9/12 2:29 PM, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:
>
>> Your package uses TMChans which AFAIK are unbounded. That means that
>> if the writer is faster than the reader, then everything will be kept
>> into memory. This means that using TMChans you may no longer say that
>> your program uses a constant amount of memory. Actually, you lose a
>> lot of your space reasoning since, being concurrent processes, you
>> can't guarantee almost anything wrt. progress of the reader.
>>
>
> Of course, you're free to use TBMChans instead, which are bounded :)
>
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> ~wren
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