#15503: interpreter: sequence_ (replicate 100000000 (return ())) gobbles up memory -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: int-e | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: 8.6.1 Component: GHCi | Version: 8.4.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Runtime Unknown/Multiple | performance bug Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I consider this to be more of a curiosity than a bug, but it might still be worth investigating. The following line, {{{#!hs sequence_ (replicate 100000000 (return ())) }}} causes `ghci` to grow quite big (here it's 6GB on 64 bit Linux; it's roughly proportional to the `100000000` number). This used to be better in ancient times--before version 8.0.1, ghci ran this code in what looks like constant memory. (This came up indirectly on #haskell; somebody had adapted Hutton's game of life program, http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/life.lhs which uses busy waiting for a delay.) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15503 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler