the arc of software bends towards understanding
I use Mendeley because it lets me easily search for papers I care about. Unfortunately, that seems to be all Mendeley has been doing for me... and that’s a damn shame. Maybe it’s because I’m an undergraduate, still dipping my toe into an ocean of academic research. Mendeley was aimed at practicing researchers, but not […]
The first thing to convince yourself of is that there actually is a problem with the code I posted last week. Since this is a memory leak, we need to keep track of creations and accesses of IVars. An IVar allocation occurs in the following cases for our example: Invocation of return, which returns a […]
One downside to the stupid scheduler I mentioned in the previous IVar monad post was that it would easily stack overflow, since it stored all pending operations on the stack. We can explicitly move all of these pending callbacks to the heap by reifying the execution schedule. This involves adding Schedule state to our monad […]