Hello Matthew, Monday, February 4, 2008, 11:45:51 PM, you wrote:
That would be nice. But its only beneficial if there are programs which takes large amounts of stack at some point, but then shrink down to very little stack and continue for a reasonable amount of time.
From the 'when I was a lad' department...
Thinking back to when Java transitioned to a garbage collector that could give memory back to the OS, we got some unexpected benefits. Consider a machine
i would be also happy if ghc will return unused *heap* memory back to OS - it's immediately required for my GUI program where users may open huge files and then close them. but i personally don't have the same need for *stack* -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com