Profiling bug in 6.10.4

Krzysztof Skrzętnicki gtener at gmail.com
Mon Mar 22 14:22:18 EDT 2010


[I forgot to reply-all first time. Sorry.]

Perhaps it's not a problem with profiling itself, but rather with
rewrite rules for hmatrix or some other package. If they fire they can
alter semantics of computations, and thus change numerical properties
of code.

Best regards

Krzysztof Skrzętnicki


On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 15:22, Gregory Wright <gwright at antiope.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a program (attached) that is relatively simple, but numerically
> intensive.
> It computes the abundances of the chemical elements generated by big-bang
> nucleosynthesis.  At the moment, the executable takes no command line
> arguments,
> it simply runs the standard model.
>
> When I build the program without profiling, it produces the right answer.
>  When
> I build it with profiling (runhaskell configure
> --enable-executable-profiling) it runs
> without error, but gives completely incorrect numerical results.  I'm using
> ghc 6.10.4
> built from source using MacPorts.
>
> The program is mostly self contained, but uses the hmatrix package to solve
> a linear
> system.  Note also that the "Vector" type is hmatrix's Data.Packed.Vector
> and not
> the one from the more familiar "vector" package.
>
> I was wondering whether this profiling problem is known.
>
> Best Wishes,
> Greg
>
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