RE: ghc-4.04 + large constant defs = *BOOM*.

[Simon Marlow]

> Oh, I forget to mention -- blowup is definitely in the code-generator
> these days;  seems to slide by the simplifier without much difficulty,
> so I haven't yet bother trying any flag-twiddling.

I tried compiling a 1500-element list of 10-tuples, and it went through
(both with and without -O) in less than 10M.  Could you send me your
example?

Cheers,
        Simon