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checkFamInstConsistency dominates compile time

I'm looking into compile time issues on our internal code base. checkFamInstConsistency takes 50% of all compile time for :load in ghci for us.

I've created a synthetic test case that approximates the issue and in which compiling 300 modules with one small data type each takes 65s total, and checkFamInstConsistency is 87% of that and 94.1% of allocations. checkFamInstConsistency is run to ensure consistency of a type family associated with Generics, but that's only semi-relevant.

To reproduce:

./gen.sh
./inplace/bin/ghc-stage2 -keep-tmp-files DummyLevel3M100.hs

Profile with some relevant cost centres: https://phabricator.haskell.org/P150

The next step is to look into implementing: #13092 (closed)##13719 (closed)

I also plan to add this test case to the codebase.

Trac metadata
Trac field Value
Version 8.3
Type Bug
TypeOfFailure OtherFailure
Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
Component Compiler (Type checker)
Test case
Differential revisions
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CC RyanGlScott, ezyang, rwbarton, simonmar, simonpj
Operating system
Architecture
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