Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are handles garbage-collected?

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 08:46:41AM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:

Remi Turk writes:

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IMO, [bracket] does indeed have those same drawbacks. (Although the traditional "explicit memory management model" is alloc/free, which is much worse than bracket/withFile)

Isn't bracket more like stack allocated memory? And most problems with explicit memory management related to heap (as you indicate)?

I think you're right. (WRT usage (only): AFAICS even Foreign.Marshal.Alloc.alloca doesn't actually use the stack.)

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The theoretical solution (and probably _only_ theoretical) is implementing a lot of garbage collectors: one for memory, one for open files, one for sockets, one for 3D polygon meshes etc etc...

...or have a number of available file handles that is limited by memory? :-)

Would be nice if OSes actually worked that way. Then again, I don't think _everything_ can be made dependent only on available memory. Groetjes, Remi -- Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.