Garbage collecting CAFs

[Andrew Cheadle]

Hi John,

Obviously the Simons are most qualified to answer this, however,
perhaps the following document (page 44-46) is sufficient to explain
this:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/run-time-system.ps.gz

it was a draft document that wasn't quite finished and was aimed at GHC
4.xx. I believe much of it is still applicable (except wrt evaluation
where the eval-apply mechanism is used over push-enter).

HTH

Andy

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, John Meacham wrote:

>I have seen numerous references to CAFs not used to being garbage
>collected in ghc leading to various contortions of the optimizer to keep
>from generating them and possible space leaks... then "something" was
>done and they are now collected.. I am curious what paper (or list
>message?) describes what that "something" is and what it entails in
>terms of tradeoffs. thanks.
>        John
>
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