Simon Marlow authored Mar 02, 2012 and pcapriotti committed Jun 15, 2012

We were keeping around the Task struct (216 bytes) for every worker we
ever created, even though we only keep a maximum of 6 workers per
Capability.  These Task structs accumulate and cause a space leak in
programs that do lots of safe FFI calls; this patch frees the Task
struct as soon as a worker exits.

One reason we were keeping the Task structs around is because we print
out per-Task timing stats in +RTS -s, but that isn't terribly useful.
What is sometimes useful is knowing how *many* Tasks there were.  So
now I'm printing a single-line summary, this is for the program in

  TASKS: 2001 (1 bound, 31 peak workers (2000 total), using -N1)

So although we created 2k tasks overall, there were only 31 workers
active at any one time (which is exactly what we expect: the program
makes 30 safe FFI calls concurrently).

This also gives an indication of how many capabilities were being
used, which is handy if you use +RTS -N without an explicit number.

MERGED from commit 085c7fe5