Bug#869356: ghc: Eats gigabytes of memory when compiling haskell-skylighting

Sat Jul 22 21:42:52 UTC 2017

On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 10:45:22AM -0500, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=haskell-skylighting
> shows, haskell-skylighting fails to build on a lot of architectures,
> from getting out of memory. I have indeed observed the RSS to be going
> very high during the build, more than a Gigabyte...

Is it possible this is the same root cause as
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12790 ?