Did you look at the amount of heap the compiler allocated? It's easily discoverable (eg use +RTS -s, and it's in the nofib logs too, though I don't think nofib-analyse looks for it. (You could fix nofib-analyse so

#8409: nofib-analyse -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- Reporter: leroux | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.8.1 Component: NoFib benchmark suite | Version: 7.6.3 Keywords: | Operating System: Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Unknown/Multiple Difficulty: Easy (less than 1 hour) | Type of failure: Blocked By: | None/Unknown Related Tickets: | Test Case: | Blocking: -------------------------------------------+------------------------------- In response to comment:13:ticket:8173: that it does.) Teach nofib to include allocation info (from module compilation time). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8409 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler