New codegen: allocate large objects using allocateLocal()
See #3424 (closed).
In the new code generator, we should allocate large objects (larger than F * block size, for some suitable fraction F) using the RTS allocateLocal() API rather than from the nursery. It works to allocate them from the nursery -- this is what GHC 6.12 does after the fix in #3424 (closed) -- but then they will not be treated as large objects and will be copied during GC. Also, the allocation is likely to fail, requiring a trip through the RTS to put a large enough block in the nursery to satisfy the allocation.
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| Version | 6.11 |
| Type | Task |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Compiler |
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