ndmitchell:
Hi,
Haskell has getCPUTime to get the amount of CPU Time that has been consumed, but has no equivalent for memory use. I would like to get something similar to -RTS -t, but from a Haskell program. I'm not overly fussed about what memory statistic I get, as long as it is something that corresponds in some way to the amount of memory that has been used - cells, heap size, live heap etc are all fine.
So, I'm after something like: getMemoryUse :: IO Integer
Is there anything I can use to do this?
This stuff is surprisingly tricky for some reason. Have a look at the gtop (C?) lib (there's also a perl binding used for the shootout). I'm not sure why shells in general don't provide a 'memory' combinator, considering we have 'time'. -- Don