Re: [Haskell-cafe] Trying to fix space leak

On Dec 31, 2007, at 9:53 AM, Paul Johnson wrote:

I'd advise against trying to make your program stricter because you might suddenly find yourself building an entire 6GB structure in memory before traversing it, which would not be a Good Thing.

I disagree. It might be the case that the _contents_ of the data structure are lazy, in which case I would say the relevant constructor parameters should be made strict. As long as the structural parts are still lazy it should be okay. And there's no harm in experimenting. :) - Jake