Re: [Haskell-cafe] mapM is supralinear?

On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 00:41 +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:

* Ertugrul Soeylemez [2011-09-07 16:20:03+0200]

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In general it's a bad idea to use mapM over IO.

Could you explain why?

Thanks.

Hmm. Isn't it explained by next sentence ("For [] it will eat lots of memory quickly and by its mere definition there is nothing you can do about that.")? Regards