[Haskell-cafe] Resource Limits for Haskell

Hey folks, Have you ever wanted to implement this function in Haskell? -- | Forks a thread, but kills it if it has more than 'limit' -- bytes resident on the heap. forkIOWithSpaceLimit :: IO () -> {- limit -} Int -> IO ThreadId Well, now you can! I have a proposal and set of patches here: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/ResourceLimits http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7763 There is a lot of subtlety in this space, largely derived from the complexity of interpreting GHC's current profiling information. Your questions, comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated! Cheers, Edward