Re: Monads and their operational behavior

[Lennart Augustsson]

> Space leaks like this are lurking in a lot of places in the standard
> prelude, so it's quite funny that Hugs/GHC don't address this problem,
> although solutions are known.
> 
> What's the behaviour of NHC/HBC in these cases?
hbc has 876 bytes in use on the heap and the stack is 13 entries deep.

This is if you turn on the Sparud trick (-fpbu), otherwise it uses
gobs of heap.

        -- Lennart