Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 7.0.1 developer challenges

Hi John,

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Peter Simons wrote:

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Relying exclusively on GHC's ability to limit run-time memory consumption feels like an odd choice for this task. It's nice that this feature exists in GHC, but it's inherently non-portable and outside of the scope of the language. There really ought to be a better way to catch an infinite loop that this.

It all comes down to picking the correct memory limit. How do you propose to do it? How did you come up with the number 32M? That number would have been a disaster for me.

I beg your pardon? I didn't say anything about "32M". I said that designing software to rely on a GHC-enforced memory limit as a means of "dealing" with infinite loops feels really not like a particularly good solution. Take care, Peter