'lilac' helpful pin-pointed a space leak that was due to a specialised
function being insufficiently strict. Here's the new comment in SpecConstr:
Note [Transfer strictness]
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We must transfer strictness information from the original function to
the specialised one. Suppose, for example
f has strictness SS
and a RULE f (a:as) b = f_spec a as b
Now we want f_spec to have strictess LLS, otherwise we'll use call-by-need
when calling f_spec instead of call-by-value. And that can result in
unbounded worsening in space (cf the classic foldl vs foldl')
See Trac #3437 for a good example.
The function calcSpecStrictness performs the calculation.