[Haskell-cafe] Parallel weirdness [new insights]

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Apr 20, 2008, at 15:41 , Andrew Coppin wrote:

> 1. Does running the GC force all threads to stop? I know some GC  
> designs do this, but I have no idea how the one GHC implements works.
>
> 2. Is the GC still single-threaded? (GHC 6.8.2 here.)

Full GC is single-threaded and stops the entire program, yes.  IIRC  
GHC's runtime tries to do incremental GC to minimize the need for a  
full GC.

> 3. Is there any way for a running Haskell program to find out how  
> much heap space is currently allocated / used / free? I know you  
> can find out how much wall time and CPU time you've used, but I  
> couldn't find anything for RAM usage.

You're looking for "heap profiling" in the GHC manual.

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