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Pinpointing space leaks in big programs

What is the biggest possible Haskell program that you could try debugging a space leak in? One very good choice is GHC, weighing in nearly a 100k lines of code (though, thankfully, 25% of that figure is comments.) Today, I’m going to describe one such space leak that I have fixed in GHC. This is […]

  • June 10, 2011