iteratee Fwd: patch: unfoldConvStream: workaround for space leak problem

[Akio Takano]

It seems I replied only to John. I forward it to the list.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Akio Takano <tkn.akio at gmail.com>
Date: 2011/2/10
Subject: Re: iteratee patch: unfoldConvStream: workaround for space leak problem
To: John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com>


2011/2/9 John Lato <jwlato at gmail.com>:
> I provided an alternative unfoldConvStream to Maciej privately, have
> you had an opportunity to compare the two?  I prefer my proposed
> definition because it has fewer local bindings and also lifts the
> binding of "f" outside the recursive calls, however I don't know if it
> actually solves the space leak.

I've just checked your definition and it seems to work.

I noticed that with GHC 6.12.3, (>>=) for Iteratee also suffers from
the same problem. I attached a patch to work around the issue.

-- Takano Akio
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