Question about profiling in GHC...

[Simon Marlow]

> Yes, it's probably garbage collection. To be sure, you can 
> run your program
> with the "-t" RTS option, which will create a file in the 
> current working
> directory named "foo.stat" if the executable is named "foo". 
> The resulting
> file will contain the total amount of time spent, the mutator 
> time, and the
> GC time. (I recently ran into this problem myself...)

The way we normally do this is to add '+RTS -sstderr' to the command
line (avoids the pesky foo.stat file).

Cheers,
	Simon