[Haskell-cafe] Re: Where does memory go?

Joel Reymont wrote:

I compiled a simple one-liner: main = print "Blah".

This is the GC report:

5,620 bytes allocated in the heap 0 bytes copied during GC

0 collections in generation 0 ( 0.00s) 0 collections in generation 1 ( 0.00s)

1 Mb total memory in use

Where did the memory go?

What is 5K and what is (more suprisingly) 1Mb?

Actually I'm surprised it's only 5k. It's more like 30k here. One reason for this allocation is that a buffer gets allocated for the stdout Handle the first time something is written to it. Cheers, Simon