[GHC] #1420: Automatic heap profile intervals

[GHC]

#1420: Automatic heap profile intervals
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    Reporter:  guest             |        Owner:              
        Type:  feature request   |       Status:  new         
    Priority:  low               |    Milestone:  6.14.1      
   Component:  Profiling         |      Version:  6.7         
    Keywords:                    |   Difficulty:  Unknown     
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Testcase:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  None/Unknown
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Changes (by ClaudiusMaximus):

 * cc: claudiusmaximus@… (added)
  * failure:  => None/Unknown


Comment:

 Currently .hp sample time stamps include the profiling overhead.

 In my work-in-progress hp2ps replacement, I have an option to rewrite
 these time stamps to remove the profiling overhead: naturally this assumes
 a constant sampling interval for the life of the profiled program.

 See also: #4225

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1420#comment:8>
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