[Haskell-cafe] Resource Limits for Haskell

[Edward Z. Yang]

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