#10830: maximumBy has a space leak -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: | Owner: NeilMitchell | Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: | Version: 7.10.2 libraries/base | Keywords: | Operating System: Windows Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Given the program: {{{#!hs import Data.List main = print $ maximumBy compare [1..10000] }}} Compiling with {{{-O2}}}, on GHC 7.8.3 this runs in constant stack space (works fine with {{{+RTS -K1K}}}). With GHC 7.10.2 I get: {{{ $ ghc --make Test.hs -O2 -rtsopts [1 of 1] Compiling Main ( Test.hs, Test.o ) Linking Test.exe ... $ Test +RTS -K100K Stack space overflow: current size 33680 bytes. Use `+RTS -Ksize -RTS' to increase it. }}} Not sure why it's failing at 33K instead of 100K, but it's certainly taking more than 1K as GHC 7.8.3 did. See #3416 for previous discussion of this issue. My guess is that in older versions of GHC the strictness analysis managed to kick in and optimise things. With the burnt bridges that no longer works. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10830 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler