#14738: Investigate performance of CoreTidy -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: tdammers | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.2.2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: Compile-time Unknown/Multiple | performance bug Test Case: | Blocked By: Blocking: | Related Tickets: #11735 #14683 Differential Rev(s): | Wiki Page: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Considering the following profile output (compiling [https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/attachment/ticket/14683/Grammar.hs]): {{{ Thu Jan 25 13:11 2018 Time and Allocation Profiling Report (Final) ghc-stage2 +RTS -p -RTS -B/home/tobias/well- typed/devel/ghc/inplace/lib Grammar.hs -ddump-stg -ddump-simpl -ddump-to- file -fforce-recomp total time = 20.99 secs (20989 ticks @ 1000 us, 1 processor) total alloc = 29,250,375,256 bytes (excludes profiling overheads) COST CENTRE MODULE SRC %time %alloc CoreTidy HscMain compiler/main/HscMain.hs:1253:27-67 24.2 28.5 Stg2Stg HscMain compiler/main/HscMain.hs:1489:12-44 20.3 24.2 simplCast Simplify compiler/simplCore/Simplify.hs:871:62-87 18.7 15.9 tc_rn_src_decls TcRnDriver compiler/typecheck/TcRnDriver.hs:(494,4)-(556,7) 9.0 6.9 addCoerce-pushCoTyArg Simplify compiler/simplCore/Simplify.hs:(1236,12)-(1237,72) 7.4 6.4 subst_ty TyCoRep compiler/types/TyCoRep.hs:2237:28-32 4.3 5.1 zonkTopDecls TcRnDriver compiler/typecheck/TcRnDriver.hs:(445,16)-(446,43) 1.4 1.1 coercionKind Coercion compiler/types/Coercion.hs:1725:3-7 1.3 3.0 simplExprF1-Lam Simplify compiler/simplCore/Simplify.hs:896:5-39 1.0 1.1 }}} ...the amount of time spent in `CoreTidy` is striking, and should be investigated. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14738 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler