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| 2025-01-31 21:40:03 +0100 | <dminuoso> | See https://simonmar.github.io/bib/papers/multiproc.pdf |
| 2025-01-31 21:39:37 +0100 | <mauke> | I may be wrong on my terminology, but I think blackholing only happens in single-threaded mode |
| 2025-01-31 21:39:25 +0100 | <dminuoso> | And that all alone pretty much stops memory issues. |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:58 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: That is, there is automatic protection that no two threads attempt to evaluate the same expression concurrently. |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:38 +0100 | <lambdabot> | *Exception: <<loop>> |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:37 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: First off, when switchinig between threads, entered thunks are blackholed. |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:36 +0100 | <mauke> | > let x = head [x] in x |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:18 +0100 | <euouae> | No |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:12 +0100 | <mauke> | on a related topic, have you ever seen the <<loop>> exception? |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:02 +0100 | <dminuoso> | No, its all build to handle that. |
| 2025-01-31 21:38:02 +0100 | <euouae> | I can see why memory can blow up then |
| 2025-01-31 21:37:49 +0100 | <euouae> | Oh it does? That can be bad |
| 2025-01-31 21:37:40 +0100 | sprotte24 | (~sprotte24@p200300d16f06b9001d5c2b08794be0ce.dip0.t-ipconnect.de) |
| 2025-01-31 21:37:34 +0100 | <mauke> | euouae: yes |
| 2025-01-31 21:37:15 +0100 | <mauke> | my point is that just as main() is a regular C function (has an address, can be called from inside the program, etc), so Haskell main is a regular IO () value and can be used as such |
| 2025-01-31 21:37:11 +0100 | <dminuoso> | Oh you're really diving deep now. |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:58 +0100 | <euouae> | so what about threads? is sharing happening across threads? |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:43 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: Right. |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:41 +0100 | <mauke> | yes |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:36 +0100 | <euouae> | very similar to C etc |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:32 +0100 | <euouae> | Well GHC bootstraps some code before main to do the execution |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:20 +0100 | <mauke> | the runtime system grabs the value of main and runs the instructions you built |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:05 +0100 | <mauke> | main is just a constant |
| 2025-01-31 21:36:02 +0100 | <mauke> | I don't think that's the right way to think about it |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:51 +0100 | <dminuoso> | That is, main is the only thing (aside from some dark primitives) that can execute IO. |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:35 +0100 | <dminuoso> | Of course *executing* IO also happens at runtime and is done by main. |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:33 +0100 | <euouae> | dminuoso: I'm very prone to using the wrong terms all the time |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:25 +0100 | <dminuoso> | Yes, you can imagine this happens at runtime. |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:16 +0100 | <euouae> | Yeah right, evaluating |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:14 +0100 | <mauke> | in my example, if nothing is shared, the code can run in O(1) memory |
| 2025-01-31 21:35:14 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: But yes, you can imagine that substitution happens at runtime. |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:58 +0100 | <euouae> | But feigning ignorance on compilation, it's fine to think of it as all interpreted at runtime right? |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:57 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: You mean *evaluating* right? |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:38 +0100 | <euouae> | So when "executing" haskell code, theoretically you can imagine that all the grammatical expansions happen at runtime. Obviously "compiled" haskell code can do some of the work before hand |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:38 +0100 | <lambdabot> | 19999 |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:36 +0100 | <mauke> | > let { x = [0 ..]; y = [0 ..] } in (x !! 10000) + (y !! 9999) |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:20 +0100 | <dminuoso> | But not sharing can also waste memory in potentially having to keep it in memory multiple times.. |
| 2025-01-31 21:34:08 +0100 | <euouae> | Ah yeah that makes sense |
| 2025-01-31 21:33:56 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: It can keep stuff alive in memory longer than you want to. |
| 2025-01-31 21:33:24 +0100 | <euouae> | Well, what is the unwanted sharing that increases memory? |
| 2025-01-31 21:33:23 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: its `trace` that is special. :-) |
| 2025-01-31 21:33:10 +0100 | <euouae> | I see then, nothing special about IO |
| 2025-01-31 21:33:00 +0100 | <euouae> | Okay right (yeah I know asm) |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:55 +0100 | <mauke> | that's a good model if you already know asm; not so much otherwise :-) |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:53 +0100 | alfiee | (~alfiee@user/alfiee) (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:50 +0100 | <dminuoso> | i.e. calculating a list of assembly instructions is different from executing them. |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:29 +0100 | <dminuoso> | A good mind model is that IO is just a list of assembly instructions, and calculating the list of assembly instrutions is pure/side-effect free. |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:21 +0100 | <mauke> | putStrLn is basically just a constructor. it builds an IO () value |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:07 +0100 | <dminuoso> | See how the evaluation did not cause any side effect? |
| 2025-01-31 21:32:01 +0100 | <dminuoso> | euouae: Here seq forces its first argument and returns the second. |