On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 06:58:14PM +0000, Philippa Cowderoy wrote:
> Surely the actual explosion comes about because PutStr forces the lot at
> once? If PutStr were to evaluate a character at a time, the laziness would
> be slow and spew a lot of garbage to collect but not hang on to as much
> space as you suggest.
Try running
putStrLn (unlines (repeat "hello!"))
You may be surprised ;-)
Best regards
Tomasz
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