Compacting GC
GHC's garbage collector does copying generational collection only. Compacting collection of the old generation would improve performance dramatically when memory is low, and would most likely improve performance in other cases for a given heap size.
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| Version | None |
| Type | Task |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | ResolvedNoReason |
| Component | Compiler |
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Edited by Ömer Sinan Ağacan