Lazy Evaluation

Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:55:06 +0800

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Hello,

Sorry for asking such a silly question: Haskell is using lazy
evaluation. So, it means we should be able to declare and use a list of
billions elements without any trouble. So I declare my list as follow:

mylist :: [Integer]

mylist = [1..1000000000]

In Hugs, I type mylist to print out all the elements inside. However,
after printing about 22000 elements, the system crashs & outputs:
"Garbage collection fails to reclaim sufficient memory"

Would you please help me with this problem?

Thank you very much,

Phan Dung.

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Sorry for =
asking such
a silly question: Haskell is using lazy evaluation. So, it means we =
should be
able to declare and use a list of billions elements without any trouble. =
So I declare
my list as follow:

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style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>&nbsp;</span>=
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<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3DVNI-Times><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>mylist :: =
[Integer]</span></font></p>

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style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>mylist =3D
[1..1000000000]</span></font></p>

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In Hugs, I =
type mylist
to print out all the elements inside. However, after printing about =
22000
elements, the system crashs &amp; outputs: &#8220;Garbage collection =
fails to
reclaim sufficient memory&#8221;

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style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>&nbsp;</span>=
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style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>Would you =
please help
me with this problem?</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3DVNI-Times><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>Thank you =
very much,</span></font></p>

<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D3 color=3Dblue face=3DVNI-Times><span
style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;font-family:VNI-Times;color:blue'>Phan =
Dung.</span></font></p>

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