id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	os	architecture	failure	difficulty	testcase	blockedby	blocking	related
5642	Deriving Generic of a big type takes a long time and lots of space	basvandijk	dimitris	"If I load the following module into `ghci` my system will run out of memory after about 15 minutes: 

{{{
{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}

import GHC.Generics

data BigSum = 
    C0   |  C1  | C2   | C3   | C4   | C5   | C6   | C7   | C8   | C9 
  | C10  | C11  | C12  | C13  | C14  | C15  | C16  | C17  | C18  | C19 
  | C20  | C21  | C22  | C23  | C24  | C25  | C26  | C27  | C28  | C29
  | C30  | C31  | C32  | C33  | C34  | C35  | C36  | C37  | C38  | C39
  | C40  | C41  | C42  | C43  | C44  | C45  | C46  | C47  | C48  | C49
  | C50  | C51  | C52  | C53  | C54  | C55  | C56  | C57  | C58  | C59
  | C60  | C61  | C62  | C63  | C64  | C65  | C66  | C67  | C68  | C69
  | C70  | C71  | C72  | C73  | C74  | C75  | C76  | C77  | C78  | C79
  | C80  | C81  | C82  | C83  | C84  | C85  | C86  | C87  | C88  | C89
  | C90  | C91  | C92  | C93  | C94  | C95  | C96  | C97  | C98  | C99
  | C100 | C101 | C102 | C103 | C104 | C105 | C106 | C107 | C108 | C109
  | C110 | C111 | C112 | C113 | C114 | C115 | C116 | C117 | C118 | C119
  | C120 | C121 | C122 | C123 | C124 | C125 | C126 | C127 | C128 | C129
  | C130 | C131 | C132 | C133 | C134 | C135 | C136 | C137 | C138 | C139
  | C140 | C141 | C142 | C143 | C144 | C145 | C146 | C147 | C148 | C149
  | C150 | C151 | C152 | C153 | C154 | C155 | C156 | C157 | C158 | C159
  | C160 | C161 | C162 | C163 | C164 | C165 | C166 | C167 | C168 | C169
  | C170 | C171 | C172 | C173 | C174 | C175 | C176 | C177 | C178 | C179
  | C180 | C181 | C182 | C183 | C184 | C185 | C186 | C187 | C188 | C189
  | C190 | C191 | C192 | C193 | C194 | C195 | C196 | C197 | C198 | C199
  | C200 | C201 | C202 | C203 | C204 | C205 | C206 | C207 | C208 | C209
  | C210 | C211 | C212 | C213 | C214 | C215 | C216 | C217 | C218 | C219
  | C220 | C221 | C222 | C223 | C224 | C225 | C226 | C227 | C228 | C229
  | C230 | C231 | C232 | C233 | C234 | C235 | C236 | C237 | C238 | C239
  | C240 | C241 | C242 | C243 | C244 | C245 | C246 | C247 | C248 | C249
  | C250 | C251 | C252 | C253 | C254 | C255 | C256 | C257 | C258 | C259
  | C260 | C261 | C262 | C263 | C264 | C265 | C266 | C267 | C268 | C269
  | C270 | C271 | C272 | C273 | C274 | C275 | C276 | C277 | C278 | C279
  | C280 | C281 | C282 | C283 | C284 | C285 | C286 | C287 | C288 | C289
  | C290 | C291 | C292 | C293 | C294 | C295 | C296 | C297 | C298 | C299
   deriving Generic
}}}

Big products have the same problem:

{{{
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    deriving Generic
}}}
"	bug	new	high	7.6.2	Compiler	7.3			v.dijk.bas@… dimitris@… hackage.haskell.org@… carter.schonwald@…	Unknown/Multiple	Unknown/Multiple	Compile-time performance bug	Unknown	T5642