As an addendum to the recent discussion, can anyone explain why main crashes quickly with a stack overflow, whereas main' is happy to print "Hi" for ages (eventually crashing due to an out of memory condition)?
bignum = 100 * 1000 * 1000
main = replicateM bignum (return ())
main' = replicateM bignum (putStrLn "Hi")
Tom
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