Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strange memory consumption problems in something that should be tail-recursive

On Feb 13, 2007, at 16:07 , Kirsten Chevalier wrote:

On 2/13/07, Jefferson Heard wrote:

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Argh, bitten by the scheme bug! Right -- NO tail recursion... So that leaves me with some rather non-intuitive strategies for achieving execution time efficiency. Anyone care to point me in the direction of a document on efficiency in Haskell?

There really should be one! (Although there may be something on the wiki already.) Profiling can help, though.

http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category:Performance ? -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH