[Haskell-cafe] Re: Looking for the fastest Haskell primes

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:11 -0400, Daniel Peebles wrote:
> I vaguely remember someone (maybe Duncan Coutts?) saying that this was
> a commonly held misconception, and that GHC did indeed GC CAFs when
> optimization is enabled. If I am remembering incorrectly, does anyone
> have a reference to a ticket outlining this non-GC'ed CAF behavior?

It was Simon Marlow. I quote:

        "FUD!  CAFs are definitely garbage collected"

http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-February/055525.html


Duncan