#11822: Pattern match checker exceeded (2000000) iterations -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: j.waldmann | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.1-rc3 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: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- graphviz seems a nice benchmark (not too large, few dependencies) that highlights compiler performance problems on "trivial" source code (cf. https://hackage.haskell.org/package/graphviz-2999.18.0.2/docs/src /Data-GraphViz-Attributes-Complete.html#sameAttribute) Compilation of Compiling Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Colors.X11 and Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Values takes >= 1 second each, and the following happens: {{{ cabal install graphviz-2999.18.0.2 --allow-newer ... [17 of 31] Compiling Data.GraphViz.Attributes.Complete ( Data/GraphViz/Attributes/Complete.hs, dist/dist-sandbox- e6f2c124/build/Data/GraphViz/Attributes/Complete.o ) Data/GraphViz/Attributes/Complete.hs:1013:1: warning: Pattern match checker exceeded (2000000) iterations in an equation for ‘sameAttribute’. (Use -fmax-pmcheck-iterations=n to set the maximun number of iterations to n) }}} I do welcome that ghc emits this warning - I expect you want its occurence to be reported as a bug? -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11822 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler