Simon Marlow wrote: > [...] So we might well ask what useful new functionality is provided > by a pool-style memory manager.
Well, I guess that about 90% of the hierarchical libraries don't provide any "new" functionality, but nevertheless they provide useful abstractions. The same holds for my proposal. > One feature is performance: [...] That's a nice bonus, but I didn't have that in mind. > So, assuming the performance is roughly the same [..], do people see > any other compelling reasons to be using pools? I see the same compelling reasons as the ones for using foldl, sum, sequence, mapM, when, allocArray, with, ... :-) > GHC's runtime has an Arena abstraction which is an implementation of > pool-style memory management, and could be used to implement Pools, > BTW. Nice, I wasn't aware of that. Cheers, S. _______________________________________________ FFI mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ffi
