id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,os,architecture,failure,difficulty,testcase,blockedby,blocking,related
3462,New codegen: allocate large objects using allocateLocal(),simonmar,,"See #3424.

In the new code generator, we should allocate large objects (larger than F * block size, for some suitable fraction F) using the RTS `allocateLocal()` API rather than from the nursery.  It works to allocate them from the nursery -- this is what GHC 6.12 does after the fix in #3424 -- but then they will not be treated as large objects and will be copied during GC.  Also, the allocation is likely to fail, requiring a trip through the RTS to put a large enough block in the nursery to satisfy the allocation.

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