Folks,
There is some disagreement over how the GC options should be specified
for Haskell programs. I've identified a couple of issues below,
comments and opinions are greatly appreciated. If there's a concensus
that things should be changed, then I'll make the changes for the next
release.
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:
Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default?
Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this
stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments
against: it's annoying to have to raise the
On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Simon Marlow wrote:
Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default?
Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M.
Arguments for: this
stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap
space. Arguments
against: it's annoying to have to
On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 12:22:07PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
I think that if there should be a default limit it would be nice to be
able to set it at compile time. This is something that I've wanted for
quite some time. If I know that the program I am compiling is
likely to
need 100M
Simon Marlow wrote:
Folks,
There is some disagreement over how the GC options should be specified
for Haskell programs.
Something that I think would be very convenient, help alleviate some of
the problems discussed, and still very easy to implement, would be
support for setting run-time
Hi Simon.
Issue 1: should the maximum heap size be unbounded by default?
Currently the maximum heap size is bounded at 64M. Arguments for: this
stops programs with a space leak eating all your swap space. Arguments
against: it's annoying to have to raise the limit when you legitimately
