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<p>I'm working (since too long) on a Haskell binding to the XFCE library
"xfconf" because, you know, in order to improve one programming skills,
one should write code. Anyway, after harassing the Haskell mailing-lists
with my newbie questions, I got a not-so-bad working binding to xfconf.</p>
<p>… memory leaks apart.</p>
<p>It took me a <em>lots</em> of efforts to finally solve this memory issue,
mainly because I'm a bad programmer who don't know a damn about software
runtime and also because I don't know what tools to use with Haskell.</p>
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</div> <p>I. The situation
I.a. Why do I care about memory leaks ?
Because I am poor.
Poor people tend to have old computers. Old computers tend to have a
small amount of RAM. And, sadly, recent GNU/linux distributions tend to
be really bloated.
Practical advantages of hunting memory leak are 1) you get to know more
stuff about software debugging 2) you... <em><a href="http://www.jdobbelstein.eu/blog/post/2010/10/01/Debugging-GObjects-in-Glib">Read</em> Debugging GObjects in Glib</a></p>