[Haskell-cafe] Profiling CAFs (re-post)

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Matthias Fischmann wrote:
> 
>   What qualifies as constant applicable form, and why is it not
>   labelled in a more informative way?

CAFs are, AIUI, things that are just values (i.e. things that don't take
an argument) that have been floated up to the top level.

Compiling with -caf-all might give you more useful information.
If that doesn't help then you might find it helpful to look at heap
profiles rather than just the normal profiler output.

>   Why are there functions that inherit all of their (considerable)
>   time and space consumption from elsewhere, but nothing in the
>   list would allow for such a rich inheritage?

I didn't understand that. If it's possible to give a small example then
that might help?


Thanks
Ian