Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
Hello glasgow-haskell-users,
i have program that holds in memory a lot of strings (filenames) and
use my own packed-string library to represent these string. this
library uses newByteArray# to allocate strings. in my benchmark run
(with 300.000 filenames in memory) program
0s)
> 16 collections in generation 1 ( 12.20s)
>
> 65 Mb total memory in use
>
> most of this memory occupied by filenames. note that 28 mb of memory
> is used just for GC procedure (i use compacting GC)
>
> then, i thought that using pinned byte arrays s
(i use compacting GC)
then, i thought that using pinned byte arrays should significantly
improve memory usage because these arrays can't be moved around and
therefore, i thought, these arrays will not be involved in GC. amount
of data which should be compacted by GC will decrease and amou
