[Haskell-cafe] Odd profiling results

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Malcolm Wallace wrote:

> The peaks I am guessing are largely attributable to parsing the source  
> files.  Then, once the source has been converted to an AST, the DDC  
> compiler is presumably doing some analysis before moving on to the  
> next file?  I think these are the well-behaved flat bits.  These  
> phases do not allocate anything fresh, so they are not creating new  
> data-structures, but perhaps are propagating static information around  
> the AST. Something like a type/effect analysis maybe?

Thanks Malcolm, I think you may indeed be correct.

It should also be pretty easy to test that hypothesis and that is
my next task.

Cheers,
Erik
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