GHC compiled program slower with -O1 than -O0

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Simon

> One thing to check is heap usage and GC time. Does GC time, or residency (both reported by -Sstderr)  go up a lot?  It's possible that an optimisation is changing space behaviour for the worse.

I've attached the logs for both -O0 (norm) and -O1 (opt), it appears
that there are 4 times more garbage collections with -O1, so thats
likely to be it.

> Does it still happen if you use profiling?  If so, the profile should narrow down the culprit a lot.  That might avoid the need to reproduce it elsewhere.

Profiling with -O1 is faster than -O1 and -O0, so turning on profiling
fixes whatever is going wrong.

The darcs repo for the code is at:

http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/darcs/catch/

This is the catch_1 directory. Unfortunately it will be a nightmare to build...

Thanks

Neil
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