[Agda] Performance tips and profiling memory usage

[Sergei Meshveliani]

In the interactive mode, C-c C-l  highlights in a particular color the
place which is currently being type-checked. So that highlighting stops
for long at the places which are expensive to type-check.
This feature helped me (about two years ago) a couple of times to find a
responsible place.

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SM 


On Thu, 2019-05-02 at 18:07 +0800, Matthew Daggitt wrote:
> Thanks, it turns out I'd somehow accidentally switched to
> Agda-2.5.4.2.20190330-26835b4 without noticing, which clearly had some
> sort of performance regression. Using Agda-2.6.0 it now checks in
> under 1.5GB.
> 
> 
> I guess it would still be great if the wiki page on performance could
> be migrated to the new documentation and updated by someone in the
> know.
> Apologies,
> Matthew
> 
> On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 5:46 PM Nils Anders Danielsson <nad at cse.gu.se>
> wrote:
> 
>         On 02/05/2019 04.37, Matthew Daggitt wrote:
>         >   The standard library has now reached the point where it's
>         taking
>         >   ~7GB of RAM to check which is obviously putting a strain
>         on my 8GB
>         >   laptop.
>         
>         The library test is run with the -M1.5G RTS option, which sets
>         the
>         maximum heap size to 1.5 GB.
>         
>         -- 
>         /NAD
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