Why are arrays retainers?

[Simon Marlow]

On 24/10/2012 08:25, Akio Takano wrote:

> Recently I was surprised to see that GHC's retainer profiler treated
> boxed arrays as retainer objects. Why are they considered retainers?

I think the intention is to treat all "mutable" objects as retainers, 
where thunks are a kind of mutable object.  From the code it looks like 
both MutableArray# and Array# are treated as retainers though, which is 
probably a mistake.  I'll fix it so that Array# is not a retainer, and 
update the docs to mention that mutable objects are retainers.

Cheers,
	Simon