aeyakovenko: > servers never terminate, pretend that i have a server that reads a > list encoded with data.binary from a socket, and sums it up and > returns the current sum. i would expect it to run in constant memory, > never terminate, and do useful work. > > which is basically the problem that I am facing right now. my program > seems to grow randomly in memory use when marshaling large data types > encoded using data.binary.
If its specifically the list instance, where we currently trade laziness for efficiency of encoding (which may or may not be the right thing), I'd suggest a fully lazy encoding instance? -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
