16 Feb
2009
16 Feb
'09
11:56 p.m.
Hello All, The kind people at #haskell suggested I come to haskell-cafe for questions about haskell performance issues. I'm new to haskell, and I'm having a hard time understanding how to deal with memory leaks. I've been playing with some network server examples and I noticed with each new connection, the memory footprint increases by about 7k However, the leaks don't seem to have anything to do with the networking code. Actually I get a huge leak just from using using 'forever'.
import Control.Monad import System.IO
main = forever $ putStrLn "hi"
When I run it for a few seconds with profiling...
total time = 0.36 secs (18 ticks @ 20 ms) total alloc = 54,423,396 bytes (excludes profiling overheads)
Can this be right?