#16190: Speed up handling of large String literals -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hsyl20 | Owner: (none) Type: task | Status: closed Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.6.3 Resolution: fixed | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/merge_requests/143 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@…>): In [changeset:"1d9a1d9fb8fe0a1fea2c44c4246f102ff3e1f3a3/ghc" 1d9a1d9/ghc]: {{{ #!CommitTicketReference repository="ghc" revision="1d9a1d9fb8fe0a1fea2c44c4246f102ff3e1f3a3" NCG: fast compilation of very large strings (#16190) This patch adds an optimization into the NCG: for large strings (threshold configurable via -fbinary-blob-threshold=NNN flag), instead of printing `.asciz "..."` in the generated ASM source, we print `.incbin "tmpXXX.dat"` and we dump the contents of the string into a temporary "tmpXXX.dat" file. See the note for more details. }}} -- Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16190#comment:13> GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/> The Glasgow Haskell Compiler