Increased memory usage with GHC 7.10.1

[Jan Stolarek]

Forall hi,

I just uprgaded both of my machines to use GHC 7.10.1. I keep sandboxed installations of GHC and 
this means I had to rebuild Agda and Idris because the binaries built with GHC 7.8.4 were stored 
inside deactivated 7.8.4 sandbox. Sadly, I had problems building both Agda and Idris due to GHC 
taking up all of available memory.

With Idris the problematic module was Idris.ElabTerm (~2900LOC). The interesting part of the story 
is that when I do a clean build of Idris GHC consumes all of memory when compiling that module 
and I have to kill the build. But when I restart the build after killing GHC the module is 
compiled using a reasonable amount of memory and within reasonable time.

With Agda the problematic module is Agda.TypeChecking.Serialise (~2000LOC). The trick with killing 
the build and restarting it didn't work in this case. I had to compile Agda with GHC 7.8.4 (which 
works without problems though the mentioned module still requires a lot of memory) and alter my 
setup so that Agda binary is not stored inside GHC sandbox.

I wonder if any of you came across similar issues with GHC 7.10.1? Do we have any performance data 
that allows to compare memory usage and performance of GHC 7.10.1 with previous stable releases?

All of the above happened on 64bit Debian Wheezy with 2GB of RAM.

Janek

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Politechnika Łódzka
Lodz University of Technology

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