it was on MS.NET 3.5
now the problem was the following
the problematic object encapsulated a running timer. on each tick of the
timer, I added an occurrence to a stream
this stream was used in another thread, but the stream itself had no
backpointer to the object that generated it
so the object
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you think this is something to report as a bug to Microsoft?
But this is a bit off topic in Haskell Cafe :-)
I don't know how MS treats bug reports, but if you can make a small
test case, then you should. It would
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Yes, I was really surprised that this was the case. I while ago I did a
little FRP experiment. I made a top level binding to a list of timer
event occurrences. The list was generated on another thread. To my
surprise, I did not have space leak, which is amazingly cool,
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote:
Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Yes, I was really surprised that this was the case. I while ago I did a
little FRP experiment. I made a top level binding to a list of timer event
occurrences. The list was generated on another
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Svein Ove Aas svein@aas.no wrote:
Using this as a guide, I tested these two programs:
str = concat $ repeat foo
main1 = print foo
main2 = print foo print foo
=
As I'm sure you realize, the first ran in constant memory; the second,
not so
2009/2/12 Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com:
It is funny that recently I had a strange problem in C# (I tried to write
parts of Reactive in C#) where the garbage collector freed data that was
actually needed by my program! I had to fix that by putting a local variable
on the stack, passing
Jake McArthur wrote:
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Henning Thielemann wrote:
| in that module I defined the text to be printed as top-level
| variable which might have been the problem. But this can't be the
| problem of the compiled version of the program, where I encountered
Yes, I was really surprised that this was the case. I while ago I did a
little FRP experiment. I made a top level binding to a list of timer event
occurrences. The list was generated on another thread. To my surprise, I did
not have space leak, which is amazingly cool, but it felt odd :) Is it
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Simon Marlow wrote:
| FUD! CAFs are definitely garbage collected, in fact we have a big lump
| of code generator and runtime complexity (Static Reference Tables, SRTs)
| to ensure that they do.
|
| However, GHCi doesn't always GC CAFs, perhaps
