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Check stack for space leaks

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#2,345 opened on Jul 6, 2016

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Description

Neil Mitchell has developed a technique for detecting space leaks and successfully used it to find space leaks in several programs.

Maybe we should try using this technique on stack!?

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Research direction
Familiarize yourself with Neil Mitchell's space leak detection technique, then apply it to the stack codebase. Set up a profiling environment, run stack with heap profiling, and analyze the output to identify potential space leaks. Look for functions that retain memory unnecessarily.
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haskell
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tooling
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Haskellstackspace leak detection
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