3 Oct
2007
3 Oct
'07
12:38 a.m.
aeyakovenko:
servers never terminate, pretend that i have a server that reads a list encoded with data.binary from a socket, and sums it up and returns the current sum. i would expect it to run in constant memory, never terminate, and do useful work.
which is basically the problem that I am facing right now. my program seems to grow randomly in memory use when marshaling large data types encoded using data.binary.
If its specifically the list instance, where we currently trade laziness for efficiency of encoding (which may or may not be the right thing), I'd suggest a fully lazy encoding instance? -- Don