[GHC] #9583: Simplifier ticks exhausted while compiling Cabal HEAD

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#9583: Simplifier ticks exhausted while compiling Cabal HEAD
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              Reporter:  ezyang      |            Owner:
                  Type:  bug         |           Status:  new
              Priority:  highest     |        Milestone:
             Component:  Compiler    |          Version:  7.9
            Resolution:              |         Keywords:
      Operating System:              |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
  Unknown/Multiple                   |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Type of failure:  Compile-    |       Blocked By:
  time crash                         |  Related Tickets:
             Test Case:              |
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Comment (by hvr):

 Replying to [comment:14 simonpj]:
 > Perhaps someone can confirm that Cabal is ok, and then close.
 >
 > Pedro: the "deriving Binary" stuff still generates a gargantuan quantity
 of code!

 Compiling Cabal within the GHC tree is not really ok (see comments in
 Phab:D183). It does compile, but it takes *several* minutes as well as
 massive amount of memory (over 50% of the 4GiB mem available in the
 buildbot, causing it to fail w/ an out-of-mem exception since we build mit
 CPUS=4) to when trying to produce the `libraries/Cabal/Cabal/dist-
 install/build/Language/Haskell/Extension.o` module with `ghc-stage1`

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