On May 16, 2012, at 12:08 PM, Yves Parès wrote:
The buffer http://hpaste.org/68595 presents a simple code I tried to profile. I spotted what I strongly think to be an abusive memoization. The problem is that I don't see how to (simply) get rid of it. Compiled with -O2, it consumes 130MB of memory, however lines A and B executed separately consume each only 1MB.
The infinite list (l 1), whatever I do, keeps being shared between lines A and B. I tried to wrap it in a function, as you can see, I also tried to make it explicitely polymorphic (bypassing monomorphic restriction), nothing solves it, GHC is just to good at memoizing.
Adding a {-# NOINLINE l #-} annotation helps here. Syntactically, it must be located somewhere a type signature for l would also be valid. Anthony