Hello Alistair, Thursday, September 01, 2005, 6:36:09 PM, you wrote:
AB> The heap profile graph for this program shows an initial peak, and AB> then the graph is flat at 8Mbytes, which I think is the space AB> allocated to the two STArrays (2 arrays, 1 million chars each, 4 bytes AB> per char?). So it looks as though any allocation for the loop function AB> is GC'd very soon after it's allocated. Char uses 4 bytes because it must hold any Unicode character, which is about 1 million :) use Word8 or CChar -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
