[Haskell-cafe] is 256M RAM insufficient for a 20 million element Int/Int map?

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Derek,

Sunday, October 19, 2008, 12:40:43 AM, you wrote:

> In GHC, a linked list is about 12 bytes per cons (on a 32-bit computer).

this isn't a whole picture. due to Garbage Collection, actual memory
use is 2-3 times higher (although you can make this coef. as close to
1 as you want by coinfiguring more frequent GCs), so 20 million elems
list will really consume 20*30 = 600 mb


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