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Heap profiling of lazy functional programs

Part of: JFP Research Articles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Colin Runciman  and
David Wakeling
Colin Runciman
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK (e-mail: colin@minster.york.ac.uk, dw@minster.york.ac.uk)
David Wakeling
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO1 5DD, UK (e-mail: colin@minster.york.ac.uk, dw@minster.york.ac.uk)
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We describe the design, implementation and use of a new kind of profiling tool that yields valuable information about the memory use of lazy functional programs. The tool has two parts: a modified functional language implementation which generates profiling information during the execution of programs, and a separate program which converts this information to graphical form. With the aid of profile graphs, one can make alterations to a functional program which dramatically reduce its space consumption. We demonstrate this in the case of a genuine example - the first to which the tool was applied - for which the results are strikingly successful.

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Journal of Functional Programming , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , April 1993 , pp. 217 - 245
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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