[Haskell-cafe] why does the binary library require so much memory?

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:56 PM, Jeremy Shaw <jeremy at n-heptane.com> wrote:

>
> Using encode/decode from Binary seems to permamently increase my
> memory consumption by 60x fold. I am wonder if I am doing something
> wrong, or if this is an issue with Binary.
>

It's an issue with the Binary instance for lists, which forces the entire
spine of the list too early. This gives you a gigantic structure to hold
onto.
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