As some are aware some Wash modules cause ghc to take a very large
amount of memory. It also generates very large C and assembler files
(the .raw_s file for one module is nearly 50Mb). So unsurprisingly it
also makes gcc take a very large amount of memory.
Unfortunately for people with weaker
Sunday, March 12, 2006, 8:00:05 PM, you wrote:
ghbrho Subject: ghc releasing memory during compilation
ghbrho Am I right in thinking that ghc's rts can free memory back to the system
ghbrho when the heap pressure reduces (at least if it's doing a compacting GC)?
ghbrho In this case if it can do