Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What is Haskell unsuitable for?

2010-06-17 Thread Don Stewart
deliverable: > At this very moment I'm struggling with fitting a huge graph of > Twitter communications into a Haskell program. Apparently it gets > into a loop freeing memory. As I suspected, JVM garbage collector got > more testing than Haskell at this scale; since not many people load it > up

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What is Haskell unsuitable for?

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Coppin
Don Stewart wrote: Did you talk to Simon Marlow yet? Unlike the JVM, we provide direct access to the GC developers when you run into trouble. :) Surely the GHC developers are amoung the busiest people on the planet though... ___ Haskell-Cafe mai

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: What is Haskell unsuitable for?

2010-06-18 Thread Henning Thielemann
Maciej Piechotka schrieb: > 1. Glueing a few highier level, object-oriented libraries if it is just > glueing. > > 2. (Currently) AFAIK real-time applications although it is rather > property of GHC GC then the language itself In my experience the garbage collector was not the problem in real-ti