Hi, I was wondering if there was a way to check whether a particular data structure gets garbage collected in a program. A friendly person pointed me to System.Mem.Weak on the Haskell-Beginner list - however I've been unable to verify how it works, so I'm bumping it to this list. See the following toy program: I was trying to see whether the output would contain "garbage collected". I wondered if performGC is a nudge rather than an immediate "garbage collect now" instruction, and performGC is not actually performed? Or I've misunderstood finalizers in this context and they would not actually be executed when z gets garbage collected? import System.Mem.Weak import System.Mem (performGC) import Control.Concurrent (threadDelay) main :: IO () main = do let x = 5 y = "done" z = 3 a <- mkWeak z x (Just (putStrLn "garbage collected")) performGC threadDelay 20000000 print y Thank you, Elise