Re: Docs for RTS option -I

2023-11-02 Thread Teofil Camarasu
Hi Bryan, Thanks for improving this documentation! I've often found these flags to be quite confusing. > For an interactive application, it is probably a good idea to use the idle > GC, because this will allow finalizers to run and deadlocked threads to be > detected in the idle time when no

Docs for RTS option -I

2023-11-02 Thread Bryan Richter via ghc-devs
The original docs are here: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.html#rts-flag--I%20%E2%9F%A8seconds%E2%9F%A9 They raised more questions than answers for me, so I took a stab at rewriting them, and sprinkled in some questions where I need better understanding.