Yay, that fixed it. Thanks!
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Aleksey Khudyakov
On 18.03.2012 22:32, Clark Gaebel wrote:
Hey list.
I was recently fixing a space leak by dropping down to imperative programming in a section of my code, when it started developing space leaks of its own.
I found the problem though - it was my "for loop": http://hpaste.org/65514
Can anyone provide suggestions on why that stack overflows? It seems ridiculously tail recursive. I tried to do it more haskell-like with http://hpaste.org/65517, but it was still spending 75% of its time in GC.
Excessive laziness could be cleverly hiding. modifyIORef doesn't modify IORef's value but builds huge chain of thunks. When you try to evaluate it you get stack overflow. Forcing value of IORef will fix this space leak.
You could use strict version of modifyIORef:
modifyIORef' x f = do a <- readIORef x writeIORef x $! f a
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