> Simon Marlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The upshot is that while GHC might notice that you have dropped a
> > Handle, another implementation which doesn't do black holing, stack
> > stubbing, strictness analysis, GC evaluation of selector thunks or
> > any of the other tricks we do to avoid space leaks might not notice.
>
> Maybe I'm confused but I thought the original complaint was that GHC
> (which plays all these tricks) was leaking objects (file descriptors)
> worse than Hugs (which plays very few of these tricks).
Yes, my point was just that you shouldn't rely on such behaviour.
Cheers,
Simon
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