I know that this is not an easy request, but can either of you produce a small 
example that demonstrates your problem?   If so, please open a ticket.

I don’t like hearing about people having to use trial and error  with INLINE or 
SPECIALISE pragmas.  But I can’t even begin to solve the problem unless I can 
reproduce it.

Simon

From: ghc-devs [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Harendra Kumar
Sent: 08 September 2017 13:50
To: Mikolaj Konarski <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Performance degradation when factoring out common code

I should also point out that I saw performance improvements by manually 
factoring out and propagating some common expressions to outer loops in 
performance sensitive paths. Now I have made this a habit to do this manually. 
Not sure if something like this has also been fixed with that ticket or some 
other ticket.

-harendra

On 8 September 2017 at 17:34, Harendra Kumar 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Thanks Mikolaj! I have seen some surprising behavior quite a few times recently 
and I was wondering whether GHC should do better. In one case I had to use 
SPECIALIZE very aggressively, in another version of the same code it worked 
well without that. I have been doing a lot of trial and error with the 
INLINE/NOINLINE pragmas to figure out what the right combination is. Sometimes 
it just feels like black magic, because I cannot find a rationale to explain 
the behavior. I am not sure if there are any more such problems lurking in, 
perhaps this is an area where some improvement looks possible.

-harendra


On 8 September 2017 at 17:10, Mikolaj Konarski 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,

I've had a similar problem that's been fixed in 8.2.1:

https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12603

You can also use some extreme global flags, such as

ghc-options: -fexpose-all-unfoldings -fspecialise-aggressively

to get most the GHC subtlety and shyness out of the way
when experimenting.

Good luck
Mikolaj



On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 11:21 AM, Harendra Kumar
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have this code snippet for the bind implementation of a Monad:
>
>     AsyncT m >>= f = AsyncT $ \_ stp yld ->
>         let run x = (runAsyncT x) Nothing stp yld
>             yield a _ Nothing  = run $ f a
>             yield a _ (Just r) = run $ f a <> (r >>= f)
>         in m Nothing stp yield
>
> I want to have multiple versions of this implementation parameterized by a
> function, like this:
>
> bindWith k (AsyncT m) f = AsyncT $ \_ stp yld ->
>     let run x = (runAsyncT x) Nothing stp yld
>         yield a _ Nothing  = run $ f a
>         yield a _ (Just r) = run $ f a `k` (bindWith k r f)
>     in m Nothing stp yield
>
> And then the bind function becomes:
>
> (>>=) = bindWith (<>)
>
> But this leads to a performance degradation of more than 10%. inlining does
> not help, I tried INLINE pragma as well as the "inline" GHC builtin. I
> thought this should be a more or less straightforward replacement making the
> second version equivalent to the first one. But apparently there is
> something going on here that makes it perform worse.
>
> I did not look at the core, stg or asm yet. Hoping someone can quickly
> comment on it. Any ideas why is it so? Can this be worked around somehow?
>
> Thanks,
> Harendra
>
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