Re: [Haskell-cafe] Memory usage outside of the Haskell heap

On Nov 5, 2005, at 3:13 PM, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

I just checked that the memory allocated with Foreign.ForeignPtr.mallocForeignPtrBytes is included in the GC stats. Does the FastString library use its own implementation of mallocForeignPtr?

Yes, -- (internal) GC wrapper of mallocForeignPtrArray mallocForeignPtr :: Int -> IO (ForeignPtr Word8) mallocForeignPtr l = when (l > 1000000) performGC >> mallocForeignPtrArray l -- http://wagerlabs.com/