Pusing to haddock

[Ben Gamari]

Simon Peyton Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> writes:

> |  tests/alloc/haddock.Cabal 	11811321368 	+ 6.40% 	12567003040
> |  	bytes
> |  tests/alloc/haddock.compiler 	60211764264 	+ 7.39%
> |  	64658444232 	bytes
> |  
> |  The haddock stats changes are probably genuine, I assume, but the
> |  expected value in all.T should be updated.
> |  
>
> I'm sad about this. My changes should have had no visible performance
> impact. But I'm not set up to dig into why this one patch might have
> had such large impact on Haddock. Presumably it's not Haddock per-se
> but perhaps the GHC session that it invokes.
>
> I am not sure what to do... I'm quite reluctant to cause a 7%
> regression in allocation without investigation. I suppose I or someone
> should investigate before-and-after, but I don't have time to do that
> this week.
>
> If someone felt able to have a go, that'd be fantastic. Otherwise
> let's at least make a ticket.
>
> For the record, the series of patches, one of which presumably causes
> the regression, is below. Bisecting to the right one would be very
> helpful -- but you have to apply the final one (haddock-update) first.
>
I've opened #12191 to track this. I'll try to get to it although I have
a friend visiting at the moment so time will be a bit tight until
Thursday.

Cheers,

- Ben
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