GHC Commentary: Storage

GHC's storage manager is designed to be quite flexible: there are a large number of tunable parameters in the garbage collector, and partly the reason for this was because we wanted to experiment with tweaking these settings in the context of Haskell.

• Layout of Heap Objects
• Layout of the Stack
• Slop
• The Block Allocator
• The Garbage Collector
• The HEAP_ALLOCED() macro

See also:

• Pointer tagging