Shin-Cheng Mu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was wondering where the space leak came from and suspected
> that it's the leak described in one of Philip Wadler's
> early paper Fixing Some Space Leaks With a Garbage Collector (1987).
> But since Wadler has addressed this problem a long time ago,
> I think the fix he proposed should have been implemented in
> GHC already. Was that really the source of the space leak?
> If so is there a way to fix it? Or is there another reason
> for the leak?
I compiled and profiled your code using nhc98 instead of ghc. There was
no space leak visible. Since nhc98 does implement the Wadler GC fix
(with refinements by Sparud), I can only assume that this does indeed
account for the space improvement over ghc.
Regards,
Malcolm
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