undocumented cost centres with -hd and -hy

[Thomas Schilling]

PAP stands for partial application, i.e., a function with one or more
missing arguments.  MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN are mutable objects which are
not moved by the garbage collector.  They are an implementation detail
of IORefs and mutable arrays (ST(U)Array, IO(U)Array, ...).  Before
entering a suspended computation (a THUNK), GHC overwrites it with a
BLACKHOLE, to avoid space leaks and to detect cyclic dependencies.

HTH

On 10 March 2010 13:30, Soenke Hahn <shahn at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
> When using the heap profiling options -hd (profiling by closure description) and
> -hy (profiling by type) there are some compiler-generated cost centres, for
> example "PAP", "MUT_ARR_PTRS_FROZEN" and "BLACKHOLE". I wasn't able to find
> documentation on them. Is there any?
>
> Thanks,
> Sönke
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