On Sun, 7 Sep 2008, Ashley Yakeley wrote:
Ganesh Sittampalam wrote:
Suppose I am writing something that I intend to be used as part of a
plug-in that is reloaded in different forms again and again. And I see
module K which does something I want, so I use it. It so happens that K
uses M, which has a <-. If I knew that using K in my plug-in would cause a
memory leak, I would avoid doing so; but since the whole point of <- is to
avoid making the need for some state visible in the API.
The results from the <- in M will only be stored once for the life of the
RTS, no matter how many times your plug-ins are reloaded.
Sorry, I keep forgetting that. OK, so you can't get an endless stream of
leaks unless you use <- yourself, or modules on your system keep getting
upgraded to new versions.
Ganesh
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