[Haskell-cafe] Battling laziness

[Simon Marlow]

On 16 December 2005 12:42, Joel Reymont wrote:

> On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
>> If script#9 is the cost center attached to all of your leaking heap
>> data, then you're already a long way to finding the problem.  It'll
>> help even more to find out whether it is just unevaluated copies of
>> "takeEmptySeat Holdem affid []", or something else (-hd, -hy will
>> help here).  Try +RTS -hy -hcscript#9, for example.
>> 
>> One obvious thing to try is replacing the '$' before {-# SCC
>> "script#9" #-} with '$!'.  And similarly in takeEmptySeat.
> 
> Let me try these and report my findings.
> 
>> (I should say that we definitely plan to update these for STM, but
>> it's not completely trivial (I checked).  Volunteers definitely
>> welcome). 
> 
> I volunteer! Just need some pointers on where to get started. I learn
> quickly but need to be guided ;-). Plus, I need this the most, right?

I was slightly mistaken: lag/drag/void profiling is pretty easy.  Take a
look at ghc/rts/LdvProfile.c and add relevant cases for STM objects to
processHeapClosureForDead().  If you fix this up and test it we should
be able to get it into 6.4.2.  Retainer profiling is much harder; the
code is in RetainerProfile.c/RetainerSet.c.

Cheers,
	Simon