[Haskell-cafe] GHC cannot compile my code

9 Nov 2005

      Folks,

I'm on Mac OSX 10.4.3 with 1Gb of memory and GHC 6.4.1. I'm using  
HList to define 92 structures in a module. I'm not using classes.

There's some nesting going on (see below). Few datypes above are  
data, mostly they are newtypes around Word32s, Strings, and lists of  
those. I have 40 newtypes that wrap HLists and homogeneous lists of  
HList types, 52 are type  aliases around HLists.

Both with and without -O ghc cannot compile my module. I run out of  
physical memory within 2-3 minutes and then it's just swapping (I  
think) and the system becomes totally unresponsive.

Any ideas how to remedy this? I shudder at thinking about compiling  
this on Windows with 256Mb of memory. I will try to split the module  
into smaller modules and will report my findings.

	Thanks, Joel

P.S.

Some example types:

newtype Tables = Tables [TableInfo] deriving (Show, Typeable)

type TableInfo =
     AvgPot :*:
     NumPlayers :*:
     Waiting :*:
     PlayersFlop :*:
     TableName :*:
     TableID :*:
     GameType :*:
     InfoMaxPlayers :*:
     RealMoneyTable :*:
     LowBet :*:
     HighBet :*:
     MinStartMoney :*:
     MaxStartMoney :*:
     GamesPerHour :*:
     TourType :*:
     TourID :*:
     BetType :*:
     CantReturnLess :*:
     AffiliateID :*:
     NIsResurrecting :*:
     MinutesForTimeout :*:
     SeatsToResurrect :*:
     LangID :*:
     HNil

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[Haskell-cafe] GHC cannot compile my code

Joel Reymont