#7258: Compiling DynFlags is jolly slow
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    Reporter:  simonpj           |       Owner:  simonpj         
        Type:  bug               |      Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  7.8.1           
   Component:  Compiler          |     Version:  7.6.1           
    Keywords:                    |          Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Failure:  None/Unknown    
  Difficulty:  Unknown           |    Testcase:                  
   Blockedby:                    |    Blocking:                  
     Related:                    |  
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Comment(by simonpj@…):

 commit 9ea2b6666cb6684279a120c688e8557bcef3dc73
 {{{
 Author: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>
 Date:   Mon Dec 24 11:34:51 2012 +0000

     Simplify the binder-swap transformation

     The occurrence analyser implements the "binder-swap" transformation,
     described in Note [Binder swap] in OccAnal. For some reason I had
     implemeted an extremely complicated version, I believe intended to get
     as much as possible done in single simplifier pass.  But it turned
     out (Trac #7258) that the 'getProxies' bit of this complicated code
     scaled rather non-linearly, and all by itself could consume half of
     the entire compile time.

     The patch dramatically simplifies the transformation, so that
     we simply swizzle
          case x of y { I# v -> e }
     to
          case x of y { I# v -> let x = y in e }

     I can't see any reason not to do this

       * Compiler allocation for #7258 with 200 fields goes down by 25%
         and compile time by 20%

       * The nofib figures do not budge

       * Quite a bit of complicated code goes away

  compiler/simplCore/OccurAnal.lhs |  255
 +++++++-------------------------------
  1 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 209 deletions(-)
 }}}

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