#12455: Compact Regions -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: simonmar | Owner: simonmar Type: task | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 8.2.1 Component: Runtime | Version: 8.1 System | Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- I'm going to use this task to keep track of what we still need to do around compact regions before 8.2.1, and so I have somewhere to hang diffs. Here's the current ToDo list: * compaction should be interruptible by GC, otherwise we block a multithreaded program while compacting (I know how to do this and have a prototype, just need to finish it). * Make it work with profiling * We should have an API that doesn't require specifying a size, just `compact :: NFData a => a -> IO (Compact a)` * libraries/compact/tests failures with `EXTRA_HC_OPTS="-debug -with- rtsopts=-DS"` * Do we need both `totalW` and `totalDataW`? It looks like one of them is redundant to me. * What happens if we try to compact something that refers to a large block? One larger than a megablock? * Improve comments -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12455 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler