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Profile ghc -j with an eye for performance issues

ghc -j doesn't seem to scale as well as it could. Reports claim that even packages with embarasssingly parallel module structures (e.g. highlighting-kate) only scale out to three or so processors.

Profiling a parallel build would be a useful first step to finding out why.

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Version 7.10.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
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