Re: GC behaviour in GHC

niviaquental:

Hello, GHC users,

I'm a Computational Engineering student in the University of Pernambuco (Brazil). In my research, I'm working with applications written in Haskell , where time is a critical factor. But there is a pretty high GC overhead I can't understand . Can someone indicate some paper or reference about the GC behaviour in GHC?

Well, I know of a couple: The workings of the incremental garbage collector: http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/inc-gc.htm The runtime system document also mentions GC: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/run-time-system.ps.gz There are probably more references at: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/documentation.html -- Don