On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:13:12PM +0000, Adrian Hey wrote: >> Also >> remember that this behaviour never wastes more than 50% of the stack, >> which is a relatively small amount. > > Only if the stack is relatively small. Would you say the same about > heap, or about a stack that only needed 50% of heap space but ended > up using all of it? Or money? Using twice as much as you need of > anything is bad IMO.
Apparently you don't realize that GHC normally uses twice as much heap as is needed, due to the decision to use a two-space copying collector by default for the oldest generation. :) Stefan
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