Adding a "release" setting in build.mk.sample (and some other build system questions)

[Thomas Miedema]

The default (and thus release) `SRC_HC_OPTS` uses `-H32m` (see mk/
config.mk.in).

Maybe you want to run some tests to see if it makes a difference on the
total build time?

I suggest also measuring without any `-H` flag, with just `-H` (see commit
below), and with `-H1G` or some other large value.

```
commit 323950933d3260503186b93e7a5a7bdaa4822c1b
Author: Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com>
Date:   Mon Nov 30 15:18:36 2009 +0000

    Implement a new heap-tuning option: -H

    -H alone causes the RTS to use a larger nursery, but without exceeding
    the amount of memory that the application is already using.  It trades
    off GC time against locality: the default setting is to use a
    fixed-size 512k nursery, but this is sometimes worse than using a very
    large nursery despite the worse locality.

    Not all programs get faster, but some programs that use large heaps do
    much better with -H.  e.g. this helps a lot with #3061 (binary-trees),
    though not as much as specifying -H<large>.  Typically using -H<large>
    is better than plain -H, because the runtime doesn't know ahead of
    time how much memory you want to use.

    Should -H be on by default?  I'm not sure, it makes some programs go
    slower, but others go faster.
```





On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Harry . <voldermort at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MakingReleases#Makingthebinarybuilds
> > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Using#Buildconfiguration
>
> So the mysterious SRC_HC_OPTS = -O -H64m which appears in every build
> flavour isn't used for the release build?
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