RTS changes affect runtime when they shouldn’t

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi

Am Mittwoch, den 20.09.2017, 14:33 -0400 schrieb Ben Gamari:
> Note that valgrind can also do cache modelling so I suspect it can give
> you a reasonably good picture of execution; certainly better than
> runtime. However, the trade-off is that (last I checked) it's incredibly
> slow. Don't you think I mean just a bit less peppy than usual. I mean
> soul-crushingly, mollasses-on-a-cold-December-morning slow.
> 
> If we think that we can bear the cost of running valigrind then I think
> it would be a great improvement. As you point out, the current run times
> are essentially useless.

I did it for my thesis and I found it ok. I mean I always sent it off
to some machine and looked at the results later, so I did not really
care whether it took 30mins or 2h.

I think I’ll try it in perf.haskell.org and see what happens.

Joachim
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