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Commit b9f0d583 authored by Simon Peyton Jones's avatar Simon Peyton Jones Committed by Ben Gamari
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Reduce result discount in conSize

Ticket #18282 showed that the result discount given by conSize
was massively too large.  This patch reduces that discount to
a constant 10, which just balances the cost of the constructor
application itself.

Note [Constructor size and result discount] elaborates, as
does the ticket #18282.

Reducing result discount reduces inlining, which affects perf.  I
found that I could increase the unfoldingUseThrehold from 80 to 90 in
compensation; in combination with the result discount change I get
these overall nofib numbers:

        Program           Size    Allocs   Runtime   Elapsed  TotalMem
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
          boyer          -0.2%     +5.4%     -3.2%     -3.4%      0.0%
       cichelli          -0.1%     +5.9%    -11.2%    -11.7%      0.0%
      compress2          -0.2%     +9.6%     -6.0%     -6.8%      0.0%
   cryptarithm2          -0.1%     -3.9%     -6.0%     -5.7%      0.0%
         gamteb          -0.2%     +2.6%    -13.8%    -14.4%      0.0%
         genfft          -0.1%     -1.6%    -29.5%    -29.9%      0.0%
             gg          -0.0%     -2.2%    -17.2%    -17.8%    -20.0%
           life          -0.1%     -2.2%    -62.3%    -63.4%      0.0%
           mate          +0.0%     +1.4%     -5.1%     -5.1%    -14.3%
         parser          -0.2%     -2.1%     +7.4%     +6.7%      0.0%
      primetest          -0.2%    -12.8%    -14.3%    -14.2%      0.0%
         puzzle          -0.2%     +2.1%    -10.0%    -10.4%      0.0%
            rsa          -0.2%    -11.7%     -3.7%     -3.8%      0.0%
         simple          -0.2%     +2.8%    -36.7%    -38.3%     -2.2%
   wheel-sieve2          -0.1%    -19.2%    -48.8%    -49.2%    -42.9%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Min          -0.4%    -19.2%    -62.3%    -63.4%    -42.9%
            Max          +0.3%     +9.6%     +7.4%    +11.0%    +16.7%
 Geometric Mean          -0.1%     -0.3%    -17.6%    -18.0%     -0.7%

I'm ok with these numbers, remembering that this change removes
an *exponential* increase in code size in some in-the-wild cases.

I investigated compress2.  The difference is entirely caused by this
function no longer inlining

WriteRoutines.$woutputCodes
  = \ (w :: [CodeEvent]) ->
      let result_s1Sr
            = case WriteRoutines.outputCodes_$s$woutput w 0# 0# 8# 9# of
                (# ww1, ww2 #) -> (ww1, ww2)
      in (# case result_s1Sr of (x, _) ->
              map @Int @Char WriteRoutines.outputCodes1 x
         , case result_s1Sr of { (_, y) -> y } #)

It was right on the cusp before, driven by the excessive result
discount.  Too bad!

Happily, the compiler/perf tests show a number of improvements:
    T12227     compiler bytes-alloc  -6.6%
    T12545     compiler bytes-alloc  -4.7%
    T13056     compiler bytes-alloc  -3.3%
    T15263     runtime  bytes-alloc -13.1%
    T17499     runtime  bytes-alloc -14.3%
    T3294      compiler bytes-alloc  -1.1%
    T5030      compiler bytes-alloc -11.7%
    T9872a     compiler bytes-alloc  -2.0%
    T9872b     compiler bytes-alloc  -1.2%
    T9872c     compiler bytes-alloc  -1.5%

Metric Decrease:
    T12227
    T12545
    T13056
    T15263
    T17499
    T3294
    T5030
    T9872a
    T9872b
    T9872c
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