```
import Data.List

test :: Int -> Int
test n = foldl' (+) 0 [1..n]

main :: IO ()
main = do
  print $ test $ 10^8

```

GHC optimizes the above code to the point that the garbage collector doesn't even have to do anything:

```
$ ghc -rtsopts -O2 testInt && ./testInt +RTS -s
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( testInt.hs, testInt.o )
Linking testInt ...
5000000050000000
          51,752 bytes allocated in the heap
           3,480 bytes copied during GC
          44,384 bytes maximum residency (1 sample(s))
          17,056 bytes maximum slop
               1 MB total memory in use (0 MB lost due to fragmentation)

                                     Tot time (elapsed)  Avg pause  Max pause
  Gen  0         0 colls,     0 par    0.000s   0.000s     0.0000s    0.0000s
  Gen  1         1 colls,     0 par    0.000s   0.000s     0.0001s    0.0001s

  INIT    time    0.000s  (  0.000s elapsed)
  MUT     time    0.101s  (  0.101s elapsed)
  GC      time    0.000s  (  0.000s elapsed)
  EXIT    time    0.000s  (  0.000s elapsed)
  Total   time    0.103s  (  0.102s elapsed)

  %GC     time       0.1%  (0.1% elapsed)

  Alloc rate    511,162 bytes per MUT second

  Productivity  99.8% of total user, 100.9% of total elapsed

```

However, if I change the type of `test` to `test :: Word -> Word`, then a lot of garbage is produced and the code runs 40x slower.

```
ghc -rtsopts -O2 testWord && ./testWord +RTS -s
[1 of 1] Compiling Main             ( testWord.hs, testWord.o )
Linking testWord ...
5000000050000000
  11,200,051,784 bytes allocated in the heap
       1,055,520 bytes copied during GC
          44,384 bytes maximum residency (2 sample(s))
          21,152 bytes maximum slop
               1 MB total memory in use (0 MB lost due to fragmentation)

                                     Tot time (elapsed)  Avg pause  Max pause
  Gen  0     21700 colls,     0 par    0.077s   0.073s     0.0000s    0.0000s
  Gen  1         2 colls,     0 par    0.000s   0.000s     0.0001s    0.0001s

  INIT    time    0.000s  (  0.000s elapsed)
  MUT     time    4.551s  (  4.556s elapsed)
  GC      time    0.077s  (  0.073s elapsed)
  EXIT    time    0.000s  (  0.000s elapsed)
  Total   time    4.630s  (  4.630s elapsed)

  %GC     time       1.7%  (1.6% elapsed)

  Alloc rate    2,460,957,186 bytes per MUT second

  Productivity  98.3% of total user, 98.3% of total elapsed

```

Why does this happen? I expected the performance to be nearly identical?
(I'm using GHC version 8.0.1 on x86\_64 GNU/Linux)

edit: I submitted a bug: <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12354#ticket>