Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghci session slows down over time.

2012-06-25 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Jonathan, I'm seeing crazy amounts of slowdown in a ghci session after just a few executions of :r (reload). Using :set +r (revert top-level bindings) doesn't seem to help. What version of ghc are you using? Cheers, Simon ___ Haskell-Cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghci session slows down over time.

2012-06-25 Thread Ketil Malde
Jonathan Geddes geddes.jonat...@gmail.com writes: Is this a known issue? More importantly, is there a known workaround? My experience is that ghci (typically run as an inferior Emacs process) often retains a lot of memory. Thus, I occasionally kill and restart it. (Not sure if that counts as a

Re: [Haskell-cafe] ghci session slows down over time.

2012-06-25 Thread Jonathan Geddes
Thanks for the responses. I am using GHC 7.4.1 an Ubuntu. Shutting down and restarting ghci is my current workaround. I was hoping for something a bit less disruptive. :kickoffGC or something like that. --J Arthur On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: Jonathan

[Haskell-cafe] ghci session slows down over time.

2012-06-24 Thread Jonathan Geddes
Haskell Cafe, I'm seeing crazy amounts of slowdown in a ghci session after just a few executions of :r (reload). Using :set +r (revert top-level bindings) doesn't seem to help. Is it possible that the dynamically-loaded object code is not being garbage collected? Is this a known issue? More