[Haskell-cafe] exceeding resources with GHC compiling (Was: Problem with publishing project/packages)

[Henning Thielemann]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Ivan Perez wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 08:13, Henning Thielemann <lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
>       On Tue, 28 Apr 2020, Ben Franksen wrote:
>
>       > I remember that I can save memory by aborting compilation
>       and restart it. It seems that GHC may cache too much.
> 
> 
> I've also experienced this multiple times (e.g., with Qt, which is huge, and with yesod apps).
> 
> Could this also be indicative of a leak?

sure

> I sometimes wonder if the developers behind some libraries operate with 
> resources that are far beyond what any of us have or can afford.

Not only that. Sometimes I want to compile a library on the Raspberry and 
I cannot add memory to that board.