[GHC] #15524: Performance regression when using the GHC API to evaluate code compared to 8.4

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#15524: Performance regression when using the GHC API to evaluate code compared to
8.4
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        Reporter:  vaibhavsagar      |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:  8.6.1
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.6.1-beta1
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Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |         Architecture:
 Type of failure:  Runtime           |  Unknown/Multiple
  performance bug                    |            Test Case:
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Comment (by bgamari):

 This is quite interesting; it would be helpful if someone could paste a
 few backtraces from GDB (or perf a `perf` profile). If anything I would
 expect dynamic linking to make things slightly slower, not faster.

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