#15304: Huge increase of compile time and memory use from 8.0.2 to 8.2.2 or 8.4.2 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: NathanWaivio | Owner: tdammers Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 8.6.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 8.4.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: x86_64 Type of failure: Compile-time | (amd64) performance bug | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by tdammers): Sounds like a promising lead, if not the key to figuring this out. Worker/wrapper is generally a good thing to do; in theory, all it should do is turn arguments to recursive function calls closures, thus reducing the argument-passing overhead. But I can imagine that this would also get in the way of inlinings and `RULES`. So what we're looking for is code that follows the pattern that makes it a candidate for worker/wrapper optimization (parameters passed through recursive calls unchanged), such that the worker/wrapper optimization breaks up expressions that might otherwise trigger useful inlinings or rewrites. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15304#comment:17 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler