[Haskell-cafe] mapM is supralinear?

Maciej Marcin Piechotka uzytkownik2 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 9 01:22:16 CEST 2011


On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 00:41 +0200, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
> * Ertugrul Soeylemez <es at ertes.de> [2011-09-07 16:20:03+0200]
> > In general it's a bad idea to use mapM over IO.
> 
> Could you explain why?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Hmm. Isn't it explained by next sentence ("For [] it will eat lots of
memory quickly and by its mere definition there is nothing you can do
about that.")?

Regards
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