
3 Nov
2005
3 Nov
'05
5:16 p.m.
Hello Jan-Willem, Thursday, November 03, 2005, 8:08:09 PM, you wrote: JWM> I've recently been experimenting with unsafeFreeze/unsafeThaw in JWM> GHC. Judicious use of these functions vastly reduces GC overhead in JWM> Data.HashTable. However, a slightly mis-timed GC will cause the JWM> whole mess to crash. i had (for another reason) proposal for adding disableGC/enableGC primitives to GHC. Simon Marlow says that it is in principle possible, although is not easy -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com