-O in 6.8.3

2008-06-20 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Hello, This is on the recent topic of very eager inlining in ghc-6.8.3. I wrote recently that (1) 6.8.3 takes 7 times more of heap than 6.8.2 to complile under -O a certain small-size module RsePol_ (let us call it M.hs), (2) even the needed ~70 Mb in 6.8.2 looks unnaturally large.

Re: -O in 6.8.3

2008-06-20 Thread Simon Marlow
Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: What is the difference between ghc-6.8.2 and ghc-6.8.3 ? Compile times were improved by 4.3% over the nofib suite between 6.8.2 and 6.8.3. Code size was unaffected (down 0.2%). Runtime and allocation were also about the same. That's not to say that we don't