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performance regression involving minimum

This program (taken from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32158319/difference-in-performance-for-coin-change-between-haskell-and-c) runs about 50% slower when compiled with ghc-7.10.1 -O compared to ghc-7.8.4 -O.

import Data.Vector.Unboxed as U ((!), constructN, length)

coinchangev :: Int -> [Int] -> Int
coinchangev n cs = v ! n
 where v = constructN (n+1) f
       f w = case U.length w of
             0 -> 0
             m -> 1 + minimum [w ! x | x <- map (m-) cs, x >= 0]

main = print $ coinchangev 10000000 [1, 5, 10, 25, 100]

However if I change minimum to sum, while the runtime in 7.8.4 is unchanged, the runtime in 7.10.1 drops by a factor of 5! Allocations also decrease by a large factor. So my guess is that something has gone wrong with call arity analysis for minimum (and gone very right for sum).

Trac metadata
Trac field Value
Version 7.10.1
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler
Test case
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Edited by rwbarton
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