[Haskell] memory management

[Simon Marlow]

On 04/08/2009 13:33, Sam Martin wrote:
>> Sounds like region inference to me.
>> (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Region_inference)
>
> Thanks, yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.
>
> Is anything like this is done in GHC?

Not at the moment, no.

Bear in mind that with generational GC, allocating memory that quickly 
becomes garbage is quite cheap.

Cheers,
	Simon