On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Gergely Risko <gerg...@risko.hu> wrote:
> I can understand that this may be slower in CPU, but can you please > elaborate why would it be worse in memory, how the frees wouldn't happen > in a "timely manner"? I thought finalisers are called when the > referencee is GCd, so if we free the mpz in the callback, then where are > we going wrong? > There is no guarantee that finalizers will be called at all, much less that they will be called in a timely manner. This is a general and well-known property of all garbage collectors, not something unique to GHC.
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