#7702: Memory Leak in CoreM (CoreWriter) -----------------------------------------+---------------------------------- Reporter: afarmer | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Component: Compiler Version: 7.6.2 | Keywords: Os: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Failure: Compile-time performance bug | Blockedby: Blocking: | Related: -----------------------------------------+---------------------------------- While running HERMIT on extended examples, we noticed that the CoreWriter component of CoreM is building up unevaluated SimplCount expressions. Attached is a one line patch to make the field in the CoreWriter record strict, which fixes the leak. Also attached are heap profiles before and after to verify the fix. (You'll notice we have other memory leaks in HERMIT to address, the important bit being the big CoreWriter peak is gone in after.pdf.) These were generated by running a large number of HERMIT transformations in a batch, with HERMIT calling ghc with +RTS -hT -RTS. I'm not sure how this affects compilation time or allocation when SimplCount is not the VerySimplCount constructor. Would the nofib suite answer these questions? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7702 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler