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alnayyir on June 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hashtables, a new Haskell library for fast mutable...

Space leaks.

Also, unpredictable program behavior (which nearly destroys its usefulness in embedded beyond what perhaps Galois has been doing).

nandemo on June 12, 2011 [–]

For what is worth, Edward Yang is writing an excellent series on space leaks in Haskell:

http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/05/space-leak-zoo/

The series require Haskell knowledge but this summary is fairly readable if you have a good grounding on programming language theory and implementation.

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