#8835: 7.6.3 vs 7.8-RC performance regression ------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- Reporter: cbm80 | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.8.1-rc2 Keywords: | Operating System: Linux Architecture: x86_64 | Type of failure: Runtime performance bug (amd64) | Test Case: Difficulty: Unknown | Blocking: Blocked By: | Related Tickets: | ------------------------------+-------------------------------------------- '''NOTE: code for this is on github [https://github.com/cbm80/Minimal]''' I have a program that uses xml-conduit to parse nzb files, a file format commonly found on Usenet. Running the program `./mini demo1.nzb +RTS -sstderr` compiled with GHC 7.6.3 yields: {{{ 37,827,736 bytes allocated in the heap 703,392 bytes copied during GC 172,040 bytes maximum residency (2 sample(s)) 35,024 bytes maximum slop 2 MB total memory in use (0 MB lost due to fragmentation) Tot time (elapsed) Avg pause Max pause Gen 0 71 colls, 0 par 0.00s 0.00s 0.0000s 0.0001s Gen 1 2 colls, 0 par 0.00s 0.00s 0.0003s 0.0005s TASKS: 3 (1 bound, 2 peak workers (2 total), using -N1) SPARKS: 0 (0 converted, 0 overflowed, 0 dud, 0 GC'd, 0 fizzled) INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) MUT time 0.01s ( 0.01s elapsed) GC time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) Total time 0.02s ( 0.02s elapsed) Alloc rate 2,603,976,578 bytes per MUT second Productivity 84.1% of total user, 86.9% of total elapsed }}} The same program, same libraries but compiled with `GHC 7.8.0.20140228` gives: {{{ 11,217,541,448 bytes allocated in the heap 31,184,656 bytes copied during GC 6,540,288 bytes maximum residency (178 sample(s)) 597,248 bytes maximum slop 19 MB total memory in use (5 MB lost due to fragmentation) Tot time (elapsed) Avg pause Max pause Gen 0 20623 colls, 0 par 0.50s 0.41s 0.0000s 0.0008s Gen 1 178 colls, 0 par 0.04s 0.05s 0.0003s 0.0009s''' TASKS: 4 (1 bound, 3 peak workers (3 total), using -N1) SPARKS: 0 (0 converted, 0 overflowed, 0 dud, 0 GC'd, 0 fizzled) INIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) MUT time 3.41s ( 3.50s elapsed) GC time 0.55s ( 0.45s elapsed) EXIT time 0.00s ( 0.00s elapsed) Total time 3.96s ( 3.96s elapsed) Alloc rate 3,293,236,224 bytes per MUT second Productivity 86.1% of total user, 86.1% of total elapsed }}} While total memory usage always stays around 2 to 3 mb when compiled with GHC 7.6.3, even if using bigger nzb files (try demo2.nzb), the 7.8-RC compiled program eats huge amounts of memory and becomes very slow. Using +RTS -S shows even more worrying GC differences. Unfortunately I can't tell whether the culprit is in one of the libraries or in the compiler. GHC 7.8-RC used was `ghc-7.8.0.20140228-x86_64-unknown-linux-deb7.tar.xz` from [http://www.haskell.org/ghc/dist/7.8.1-rc2] -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8835 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler