On 05/03/2010 05:03, wren ng thornton wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
So it would be pretty easy to provide something like
disableMajorGC, enableMajorGC :: IO ()
Of course leaving it disabled too long could be bad, but that's your
responsibility.
It seems like it'd be preferable to have an interface like:
withMajorGCDisabled :: IO() -> IO()
or (for some definition of K):
withMajorGCDisabled :: (K -> IO()) -> IO()
Sure, my intention was that you'd build this with the primitives.
> in order to ensure that it always gets turned back on eventually. Of
> course, the latter can be created from the former pair. It's just that
> the former reminds me a bit much of explicit memory management and how
> difficult it is to balance the free()s...
quite!
Cheers,
Simon
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