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unstreamM fusion incredibly easy to break

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5/5
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Over a week
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25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
performance

Research direction

Begin at Data.Vector.Generic.unstreamM and the displayed definitions of unstreamPrimM and its IO/ST specialisations. Inspect the RULES and compare non-IO/ST simplification behavior; done should address the reported list materialisation or document why it cannot be avoided.

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Description

It turns out that Data.Vector.Generic.unstreamM will more-often-than-not fail to fuse. For evidence look no farther than the implementation:

unstreamM :: (Monad m, Vector v a) => MBundle m u a -> m (v a)
{-# INLINE_FUSED unstreamM #-}
unstreamM s = do
                xs <- MBundle.toList s
                return $ unstream $ Bundle.unsafeFromList (MBundle.size s) xs

unstreamPrimM :: (PrimMonad m, Vector v a) => MBundle m u a -> m (v a)
{-# INLINE_FUSED unstreamPrimM #-}
unstreamPrimM s = M.munstream s >>= unsafeFreeze

-- FIXME: the next two functions are only necessary for the specialisations
unstreamPrimM_IO :: Vector v a => MBundle IO u a -> IO (v a)
{-# INLINE unstreamPrimM_IO #-}
unstreamPrimM_IO = unstreamPrimM

unstreamPrimM_ST :: Vector v a => MBundle (ST s) u a -> ST s (v a)
{-# INLINE unstreamPrimM_ST #-}
unstreamPrimM_ST = unstreamPrimM

{-# RULES

"unstreamM[IO]" unstreamM = unstreamPrimM_IO
"unstreamM[ST]" unstreamM = unstreamPrimM_ST  #-}

Note how unstreamM bundle will materialise the stream contents as a list in all monads except IO and ST. This seems Very Bad, although I'm not sure what can really be done. In principle we could use unstreamPrimM for any PrimMonad, but this of course we can't know during simplification.

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