Is this a known bug? (GHC 6.10.x)
It's known to happen when optimising shares what shouldn't be shared. Try
compiling with -O2 -fno-cse (if that doesn't help, it doesn't necessarily
mean it's not unwanted sharing, though).
And, please, let us see some code to identify the problem.
I tried -O2 -fno-cse. No difference.
I also tried -O2 -fno-full-laziness. BIG DIFFERENCE.
The program now runs in constant space (like with -O0), but it also runs
about 2x faster than -O0.
I have no idea what these switches do, but clearly one of these
optimisations is actually pessimal for this particular program.
I still want to try compiling with a newer version of GHC to see what
difference that makes.
(And yes, if I had the code on this PC, I could post it. It's kinda long
though... In essence, it just calls randomRIO a bazillion times and
writes the results into a file using hPutChar.)
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