
On Fri, Jul 03, 2015 at 06:00:48PM +0000, Baojun Wang wrote:
My concerns is ~80% alloc happens in f3, but both array is allocated by newArray? Since I'm using unboxed array I'm not expecting this kind of laziness.
I see. You seem to be asking why it is allocating *at all*. That's not a phenomenon that normally falls under the terminology of "space leak", hence my confusion. I'm not an expert at reading Core, but I spent some time looking at it without seeing anywhere that would obviously allocate a lot. Eventually I decided to supply the profiling options to ghc-core and lo and behold the output changed dramatically! Unless I am very much misunderstanding how cost centre annotations work, the amount of allocation without -auto-all is only 10% of the amount with it. Please check and let me know if you concur that it is the profiling itself that is the root cause of all the allocation! Tom