21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
2:05 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:58:14PM +0000, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
Surely the actual explosion comes about because PutStr forces the lot at once? If PutStr were to evaluate a character at a time, the laziness would be slow and spew a lot of garbage to collect but not hang on to as much space as you suggest.
Try running putStrLn (unlines (repeat "hello!")) You may be surprised ;-) Best regards Tomasz -- I am searching for a programmer who is good at least in some of [Haskell, ML, C++, Linux, FreeBSD, math] for work in Warsaw, Poland