Compiling very large constants with GHC

Question

Today I asked GHC to compile an 8MB Haskell source file. GHC thought about it for about 6 minutes, swallowing almost 2GB of RAM, and then finally gave up with an out-of-memory e

Answer 1

There's a simple solution — your literal should have type ByteString. See https://github.com/litherum/publicsuffixlist/pull/1 for details.