On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 07:11 -0400, Daniel Peebles wrote: > I vaguely remember someone (maybe Duncan Coutts?) saying that this was > a commonly held misconception, and that GHC did indeed GC CAFs when > optimization is enabled. If I am remembering incorrectly, does anyone > have a reference to a ticket outlining this non-GC'ed CAF behavior?
It was Simon Marlow. I quote: "FUD! CAFs are definitely garbage collected" http://haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-February/055525.html Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe