[GHC] #5205: Control.Monad.forever leaks space

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#5205: Control.Monad.forever leaks space
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  Reporter:  akio                     |          Owner:  igloo           
      Type:  bug                      |         Status:  new             
  Priority:  normal                   |      Milestone:  7.2.1           
 Component:  libraries/base           |        Version:  7.0.3           
Resolution:                           |       Keywords:                  
        Os:  Unknown/Multiple         |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
   Failure:  Runtime performance bug  |     Difficulty:  Unknown         
  Testcase:                           |      Blockedby:                  
  Blocking:                           |        Related:                  
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Changes (by simonpj):

  * owner:  => igloo
  * difficulty:  => Unknown


Comment:

 Actually that makes a lot of sense.  Ian or Paolo, would you like to
 change the definition of 'forever' as edsko suggests, and check it's ok
 with your performance test.

 Ian: you say that you added a test, but you didn't say what the test is on
 this ticket, so maybe you can do that too?

 (Thinking about it, I'm really not sure what difference it makes to make
 the current recursive defn of `forever` INLINABLE. The comment doesn't
 explain!  But if we change the definition it becomes moot anyway.)

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5205#comment:9>
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