Why is GHC so much worse than JHC when computing the Ackermann function?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 20.04.2013, 13:03 -0700 schrieb Edward Z. Yang:
> I don't seem to get the leak on latest GHC head.  Running the program
> in GC debug mode in 7.6.2 is quite telling; the program is allocating
> *a lot* of megablocks.  We probably fixed it though?

it’s confirmed that it is fixed in HEAD. But it’d be really interesting
to know what the bug was and how it was fixed. Could someone who has a
setup for running bisect at his fingertips find out?

Greetings,
Joachim

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