5 Apr
2014
5 Apr
'14
3:55 p.m.
On Saturday, April 5, 2014, John M. Dlugosz
On 4/4/2014 3:35 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
There's a function named iterate in Prelude:
λ> :info iterate iterate :: (a -> a) -> a -> [a] -- Defined in `GHC.List' λ> take 8 (iterate (\x -> 2 * x + 1) 0) [0,1,3,7,15,31,63,127]
Nice. I followed up with that to understand how it's written.
Now, how might I do something like that but "forget" previous values to free up memory?
Garbage Collection does that for you. If all the references are gone, the memory can be freed. If you have a specific use in mind I can show you what that looks like.