I seem to remember that such a thing was present in at least an
early version of nhc. Nhc people, do I remember right?
J
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> i am preparing a demonstration on memory management/garbage
> collection,
> and to give the students some real life examples,
> i am looking for a simple patch to some Haskell runtime system
> so that it would display the heap *while* the program is running.
> like, opening an X window and mapping heap cell types to
> pixel colours.
> (i'm prepared to accept horrible slowdowns in program execution)
> i quickly hacked such a display into hugs, just using 3 colours
> (cell is in free list, cell is reachable, cell is unreachable),
> but i'd like to have this for some other (e. g. generational)
> collector as well. any hints appreciated.
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