Hello,
I'm interested in research relating to memory management in
Haskell. I'm at the point where I don't know enough to have very
specific questions, but I'm especially interested in garbage collection
in Haskell, and any available statistics (such as, how long does a thunk
typically l
nricci01:
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in research relating to memory management in
> Haskell. I'm at the point where I don't know enough to have very
> specific questions, but I'm especially interested in garbage collection
> in Haskell, and any available statistics (such as, how long do
2009/8/3 Nathan Ricci :
> Hello,
>
> I'm interested in research relating to memory management in Haskell. I'm
> at the point where I don't know enough to have very specific questions, but
> I'm especially interested in garbage collection in Haskell, and any
> available statistics (such as, how
Nathan,
I'm interested in research relating to memory management in
Haskell. I'm at the point where I don't know enough to have very
specific questions, but I'm especially interested in garbage collection
in Haskell, and any available statistics (such as, how long does a thunk
typically
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On Behalf Of Colin Runciman
Sent: 04 August 2009 12:06
To: Nathan Ricci
Cc: Haskell@haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell] memory management
Nathan,
> I'm interested in research relating to memory management in
> Haskell. I'm at the point where I don't know enoug
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Sam Martin wrote:
I can picture similar situations arising in Haskell where for suitable
expressions the compiler could in theory determine that garbage
collection would be unnecessary for a lump of temporary data and simply
allocate/deallocate when starting/finish
> Sounds like region inference to me.
> (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Region_inference)
Thanks, yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.
Is anything like this is done in GHC?
Ta,
Sam
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On 04/08/2009 13:33, Sam Martin wrote:
Sounds like region inference to me.
(https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Region_inference)
Thanks, yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.
Is anything like this is done in GHC?
Not at the moment, no.
Bear in mind that with generational GC, a
Hi,
staying in the realm of the explicit and pragmatic, various libraries
in Haskell do provide safe&explicit region/alloca/stack allocation
actions, e.g.,
Foreign.Marshal.Alloc.allocaBytes :: Int -> (Ptr a -> IO b) -> IO b
with the promise that the pointer doesn't escape here (you could con
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 04/08/2009 13:33, Sam Martin wrote:
>
>> Sounds like region inference to me.
>>> (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Region_inference)
>>>
>>
>> Thanks, yes, that's exactly what I had in mind.
>>
>> Is anything like this is don
l.org [mailto:haskell-boun...@haskell.org] On
| Behalf Of Simon Marlow
| Sent: 04 August 2009 14:50
| To: Sam Martin
| Cc: Colin Runciman; Haskell@haskell.org
| Subject: Re: [Haskell] memory management
|
| On 04/08/2009 13:33, Sam Martin wrote:
| >> Sounds like region inference to me.
| In the early to mid '90s we built various heap-profiling tools to
| examine the characteristics of heap data in lazy functional programs.
| You can find papers describing this work by Googling "heap profiling".
| You may be particularly interested in the investigation of "heap lag"
| and "heap dr
On 06/08/2009 08:22, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
| In the early to mid '90s we built various heap-profiling tools to
| examine the characteristics of heap data in lazy functional programs.
| You can find papers describing this work by Googling "heap profiling".
| You may be particularly interested
rence an attractive option for these
situations?
Cheers,
Sam
-Original Message-
From: Simon Peyton-Jones [mailto:simo...@microsoft.com]
Sent: 06 August 2009 08:23
To: Simon Marlow; Sam Martin
Cc: Colin Runciman; Haskell@haskell.org
Subject: RE: [Haskell] memory management
Also region
tried it.
>
> Simon
>
> | -Original Message-
> | From: haskell-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-boun...@haskell.org]
> On
> | Behalf Of Simon Marlow
> | Sent: 04 August 2009 14:50
> | To: Sam Martin
> | Cc: Colin Runciman; Haskell@haskell.org
> | Subject:
Dear Haskellers and Camlers
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Hello Sigbjorn,
Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 6:11:09 PM, you wrote:
> this using the type system, if you so wish..) I don't know if the GHC
> RTS still(?) provides hooks for allocating "alloca" objects specially.
it's allocated as usual object, these are cheap anyway as far as it
freed before minor
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