[Haskell-cafe] Resource Limits for Haskell

[Edward Z. Yang]

I now have a paper draft describing the system in more detail.  It also
comes with a brief explanation of how GHC's profiling works, which should
also be helpful for people who haven't read the original profiling
paper.

    http://ezyang.com/papers/ezyang13-rlimits.pdf

Edward

Excerpts from Edward Z. Yang's message of Fri Mar 15 14:17:39 -0700 2013:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Have you ever wanted to implement this function in Haskell?
> 
>     -- | Forks a thread, but kills it if it has more than 'limit'
>     -- bytes resident on the heap.
>     forkIOWithSpaceLimit :: IO () -> {- limit -} Int -> IO ThreadId
> 
> Well, now you can! I have a proposal and set of patches here:
> 
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/ResourceLimits
>     http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7763
> 
> There is a lot of subtlety in this space, largely derived from the
> complexity of interpreting GHC's current profiling information.  Your
> questions, comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
> 
> Cheers,
> Edward