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Commit 349ea330 authored by Hannes Siebenhandl's avatar Hannes Siebenhandl Committed by Marge Bot
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Eliminate thunk in 'IfaceTyCon'

Heap analysis showed that `IfaceTyCon` retains a thunk to
`IfaceTyConInfo`, defeating the sharing of the most common instances of
`IfaceTyConInfo`.
We make sure the indirection is removed by adding bang patterns to
`IfaceTyCon`.

Experimental results on the agda code base, where the `mi_extra_decls`
were read from disk:

Before this change, we observe around 8654045 instances of:

`IfaceTyCon[Name,THUNK_1_0]`

But these thunks almost exclusively point to a shared value!

Forcing the thunk a little bit more, leads to `ghc-debug` reporting:

`IfaceTyCon[Name:Name,IfaceTyConInfo]`

and a noticeable reduction of live bytes (on agda ~10%).
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