The latter seems like an easy fix for this particular benchmark, but
#8611: nofib’s cacheprof’s allocations nondeterminisitic -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: nomeata | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: NoFib benchmark | Version: 8.5 suite | Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #4450 | Differential Rev(s): Phab:D5460 Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by sgraf): Replying to [comment:11 sgraf]: this will probably come up again in the future. Maybe we can teach the RTS not do stack squeezing during context switches?
CCing simonmar for input, as I'm not particularly familiar with RTS
internals. Continuing discussion in #16065. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8611#comment:13 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler