Hello Matthew, Monday, February 4, 2008, 11:45:51 PM, you wrote:
>> That would be nice. But its only beneficial if there are programs >> which takes large amounts of stack at some point, but then shrink down >> to very little stack and continue for a reasonable amount of time. > From the 'when I was a lad' department... > Thinking back to when Java transitioned to a garbage collector that could give > memory back to the OS, we got some unexpected benefits. Consider a machine i would be also happy if ghc will return unused *heap* memory back to OS - it's immediately required for my GUI program where users may open huge files and then close them. but i personally don't have the same need for *stack* -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
