darcs patch: Teach the inliner about primitive compar... (and 2more)

[Samuel Bronson]

Oh. Oops. I meant to "Reply to all".
Btw, what are "swings and roundabouts"?

On 10/13/06, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Samuel

> Our mechanism for figuring this out is to
>         - check out the nofib suite (darcs.haskell.org/nofib)
>         - run the suite before and after the patch (cd nofib; make
> clean; make -k >& log)
>         - run the nofib-analyse script to compare the two logs
> The third step produces a table showing whether runtimes and allocations
> went down or up.
>
> Could you do this and let us know how it goes?

Hmm. On my poor PII 450 MHz with only 256 MB of RAM?