Turning on -funbox-small-strict-fields by default in GHC 7.8

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Fri Apr 26 06:51:41 CEST 2013


On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

> I think you could make up a case where it is a loss. It would boil down to
> repeated reboxing of a value pulled out of a strict field. In practice I
> think it's pretty hard.


I've seen this in real-world code, though it is indeed rare in my
experience.
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