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Inlining functions of Unboxed vector consumes a lot of memory

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4/5
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3-5 days
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30/100
Issue type
Bug
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Needs clarification
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Stale
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haskell

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Review the temporary change in #273, then build the vector-tests-O2 suite and inspect Tests.Vector.Property.testPolymorphicFunctions and Tests.Vector.Unboxed. Compare compilation memory on the affected GHC versions; done means the Unboxed tests build without excessive memory consumption and the temporary workaround is no longer needed.

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Description

For quite some time test suite vector-tests-O2 was unbuildable on CI for newer ghc versions 8.2 - 8.10 See:

The culprit was Unboxed vector, in particular compiling the full collection of Tests.Vector.Property.testPolymorphicFunctions properties restricted to Unboxed vector was consuming the most memory (~15Gb) (probably because it has the most number of properties). As a temporary fix #273 disables inlining of that collection of properties for Unboxed vector only. Compilation of Tests.Vector.Unboxed still takes the most amount of memory, but it is bearable ~1Gb

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