Compiler performance bug: large "do" expression

From Neil Mitchell:

Using GHC 6.4.2 on Windows and 6.4.1 on Linux, I get really poor compile time performance for large do blocks - for example:

main = do
  return ()
  return ()
  ....
  return ()

The following are the compile times in seconds for a given number of return () lines, GHC 6.4.1 on Linux, with a very beefy processor (my department server) and loads of RAM.

100    1.444
200    4.054
300    7.977
400    13.967
500    21.265
600    30.71
700    43.997

For comparison on my desktop machine I get out of heap space with 268Mb of heap, in a few minutes for 700. Compared to Hugs and Yhc, which both deal with all of these files instantly.

By splitting the 700 line do block into 7 separate do blocks, each 100 lines, I get a compile time of 8.530.

The particular reason I was running into this issue was with an auto generated file of tests, about 360 lines of reasonably lines in a do block, which exhausted the memory in GHCi. I have modified my test generator to split the files into 50 line blocks.

Thanks

Neil

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Trac field	Value
Version	6.4.2
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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