[Haskell-cafe] Unnecessarily strict implementations

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Sun Sep 5 15:52:44 EDT 2010


Daniel Fischer schrieb:

> Yes. Ordinarily, lines in text files aren't longer than a few hundred 
> characters, leaking those, who cares?

I got several space leaks of this kind in the past. They are very
annoying. They are especially annoying if input comes from the outside
world, where people can attack them to crash your program because of
memory exhaustion.



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