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Opened Feb 05, 2016 by jscholl@trac-jscholl

Strictness signature blowup

The following code takes a lot of memory (556MB) to compile:

data A = A A A A A A deriving (Eq)

More As result in more memory consumption during compilation. Using ghc -O A.hs -v -dverbose-core2core -c -ddump-simpl +RTS -s it seems like the strictness signatures of (==) and (/=) blow up quite a bit.

A less silly example could be the following:

data QuadTree a = QuadTree !Int [a] (QuadTree a) (QuadTree a) (QuadTree a) (QuadTree a)

foldQuadTree :: (a -> b -> b) -> Int -> b -> QuadTree a -> b
foldQuadTree f maxSize = go
    where
        go z (QuadTree size elems t1 t2 t3 t4)
            | size <= maxSize = foldr f z elems
            | otherwise       = go (go (go (go z t4) t3) t2) t1
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Version 7.10.3
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TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
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Reference: ghc/ghc#11545