`elm make` hang then runaway memory usage from orphan process

[javanwood]

Quick Summary: Compilation hangs and an elm process remains active after <ctrl-c>. Memory usage of this process reaches >16GB (memory available to system) which bogged down my system.

SSCCE

module Main exposing (..)

foldMap : (a -> b) -> (a -> c) -> (b -> c -> c) -> a -> c
foldMap fab fac fbc a = fac a

break : Float -> (Float, Float)
break input = foldMap identity (\x -> (x, x)) (\( low, high ) x -> ( min low x, max high x )) input

• Elm: Elm 0.19.1
• Browser: NA
• Operating System: macOS 11.4

Additional Details

elm make hangs after printing Compiling .... The orphan elm process only continues if waiting for longer than 5-6 seconds before using to cancel the elm make command.

When changing (\( low, high ) x -> to (\x ( low, high ) -> the snippet compiles as expected, and changing ( min low x, max high x ) to ( x, x ) results in the compiler error `foldMap` needs the 4th argument to be: ( ∞, ∞ ).

Came across this writing a foldMap to calculate the min and max of a List Float but have simplified to get a minimal reproduction.

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[maxime-didier]

Hello,

We encountered the same problem in our code after I mistakenly swapped the arguments of the set function in a lens. It looks to me that we encountered the same typechecker bug:

module Main exposing (..)

type alias Lens a b =
  { get : a -> b
  , set : b -> a -> a
  }

oopsLens : Lens { b | oops : a } b
oopsLens = Lens .oops (\x oops -> { x | oops = oops })

[pete-murphy]

Ran into a similar issue, though not from mistakenly swapping arguments, this was from a use of elm-form that I thought would actually compile. Boiled it down to

module Main exposing (..)


type X r
    = X


f : X r -> X { r | y : () }
f _ =
    X


x : X { z : () }
x =
    X


example : ()
example =
    x
        |> (if True then
                f

            else
                identity
           )
        |> always ()

That causes elm make to hang and balloon in memory usage (even after exiting with Ctrl+c).