I'm not a GHC developer but I think you should report a bug here:
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ReportABug
I've done it a couple of times and if you provide a reproducible test case
it will usually get looked at at some point.
Managing all the bugs on a mailing list would be a nightmare.
I have this little demo which I use for sixth formers which includes
calculating in fairly rapid order the sum of the digits of the
10^9th Fibonacci number. (I haven't got enough physical memory to
do the same for the 10^10th number without thrashing...) It fell
over on a flashy new macbook I
I created a ticket: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12946
On 7 December 2016 at 16:37, wrote:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Thanks for getting back.
>
> 1. Without -prof and -fexternal-interpreter, the program runs fine.
>
> 2. With just -prof, the program runs fine.
>
> 3. With