[GHC] #7443: Generated C code under -prof -fprof-auto -fprof-cafs very slow to compile

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#7443: Generated C code under -prof -fprof-auto -fprof-cafs very slow to compile
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Reporter:  orenbenkiki       |          Owner:                  
    Type:  bug               |         Status:  new             
Priority:  normal            |      Component:  Compiler        
 Version:  7.4.2             |       Keywords:                  
      Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Failure:  None/Unknown      |      Blockedby:                  
Blocking:                    |        Related:                  
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 Some background: This is C code generated when I turned on profiling with
 -fprof-auto -fprof-cafs, on Haskell code that contains a large amount of
 injected TemplateHaskell code. GHC takes several minutes to compile this
 on its side; but for some reason it emits the attached C code, which (if
 compiled with -O) takes "forever" to compile. At least, I killed it after
 consuming 3 hours of CPU and occupying 9GB of RAM.

 I also opened a GCC bug for this; but a cursory look seems to indicate
 this C code is trying to build a linked list in memory, which it seems
 should be doable in a much more straightforward way. In fact since the
 list of CAFs will not change in run-time, it should be possible to
 initialize it in compile time as:

 ENTRY entry_0[1] = { ..., link = NULL };
 ENTRY entry_1[1] = { ..., link = entry_0 };
 ...
 head = entry_n;

 And this is before wondering why not use an array of entries instead of a
 linked list in the 1st place. That said, I am just guessing here, I have
 no understanding of what is really going on, other than the fact I was
 forced to add {-# OPTIONS_GHC -optc -O0 #-} to the offending file.

 Attached is a tgz file containing the generated C code (plus a version
 which is post-CPP, so you can just try to compile it in various ways on
 systems without GHC installed).

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7443>
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