Re: [Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-30 Thread Yitzchak Gale
Günther Schmidt wrote:
 ...*I*
 have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to compile due to
 exhausting virtual memory!
 Top that!

Good work Günther!

Joe Fredette wrote:
 Code or it didn't happen. :)

Yes, how did you do it?

Did it involve very large literals? GHC is known to have some
limitations with that. For example, on my machine, a String
literal that is larger than about 1 Gb will cause GHC to
overflow the RTS stack. And a list literal with only a few
thousand elements can cause GHC to suck up all memory and
bring my computer to its knees.

Examples:

choke1 = \
\0123456789abcdef\
\0123456789abcdef\
.
.
.
\

choke2 = [
 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
.
.
.
 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
 99]

Regards,
Yitz
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-30 Thread Guenther Schmidt

Hi guys,

actually it involved haskelldb and a table that had 183 columns. In 
order to specify the table with its 183 columns I had to increase the 
context-stack slightly from 20 to a mere 190.


Günther

BTW there is one thing I find a bit unfortunate in otherwise flawless 
haskelldb, each column has to be made an instance of the class FieldTag, 
which makes it impossible to do this in a higer-orderish sort of way.




Yitzchak Gale schrieb:

Günther Schmidt wrote:
  

...*I*
have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to compile due to
exhausting virtual memory!
Top that!
  


Good work Günther!

Joe Fredette wrote:
  

Code or it didn't happen. :)



Yes, how did you do it?

Did it involve very large literals? GHC is known to have some
limitations with that. For example, on my machine, a String
literal that is larger than about 1 Gb will cause GHC to
overflow the RTS stack. And a list literal with only a few
thousand elements can cause GHC to suck up all memory and
bring my computer to its knees.

Examples:

choke1 = \
\0123456789abcdef\
\0123456789abcdef\
.
.
.
\

choke2 = [
 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
.
.
.
 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,
 99]

Regards,
Yitz
  


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[Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-29 Thread GüŸnther Schmidt

Hi folks,

I would like to announce that I have not merely managed to make the RTS 
choke during runtime on stack overflows like lesser programmers, no, *I* 
have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to compile due to 
exhausting virtual memory!


Top that!

Günther

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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Breaking ghci

2009-06-29 Thread Joe Fredette

Code or it didn't happen. :)

GüŸnther Schmidt wrote:

Hi folks,

I would like to announce that I have not merely managed to make the 
RTS choke during runtime on stack overflows like lesser programmers, 
no, *I* have managed to write code that ghc is not even able to 
compile due to exhausting virtual memory!


Top that!

Günther

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