[Haskell-cafe] Re: What is Haskell unsuitable for?

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Thu Jun 17 12:20:15 EDT 2010


deliverable:
> At this very moment I'm struggling with fitting a huge graph of
> Twitter communications into a Haskell program.  Apparently it gets
> into a loop freeing memory.  As I suspected, JVM garbage collector got
> more testing than Haskell at this scale; since not many people load it
> up as much, it may be less tested.  

Did you talk to Simon Marlow yet? Unlike the JVM, we provide direct
access to the GC developers when you run into trouble. :)

-- Don


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