RE: Array operations and pinning

2005-11-02 Thread Simon Marlow
On 02 November 2005 11:15, Rene de Visser wrote: > Where is the documentation on how pinning works in the GHC garbage > collector (from a GHC users point of view). > > I have copied the following code from array/IO.hs and am thinking > that it is assuming that the array is pinned? What triggers t

Array operations and pinning

2005-11-02 Thread Rene de Visser
Hello, Where is the documentation on how pinning works in the GHC garbage collector (from a GHC users point of view). I have copied the following code from array/IO.hs and am thinking that it is assuming that the array is pinned? What triggers the pinning? On a second note. Why is the type