Non-escaping lets, join-points and binding updatability

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Yes, a join point should always have at least one argument, although it can be a zero-width argument that takes no registers to pass.  (That's the State# RealWorld thing Simon mentions.)

See Note [Join point abstraction] in Simplify.lhs.

At one point the demand analyser was noticing that the argument was unused, and removing it, but I believe I fixed that.

Does that resolve the question? Are any comments in the code inconsistent?

Please clarify with Note [blah], and/or cross-reference to other Notes.

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Simon
| Marlow
| Sent: 17 October 2013 09:44
| To: Jan Stolarek; ghc-devs at haskell.org
| Subject: Re: Non-escaping lets, join-points and binding updatability
| 
| On 16/10/2013 18:27, Jan Stolarek wrote:
| > Hi all,
| >
| > I'm trying to understand this:
| >
| > 1. Note [What is a non-escaping let] says that one of conditions of
| binding being a non-escaping
| > let is non-updatability.
| > 2. My understanding is that a if a binding has at least one parameter
| it is non-updatable, though
| > I suspect that converse does not have to be true (lambdas)
| > 3. Join-points are implemented using LNE bindings and I can imagine a
| join-points not having any
| > parameters (and not being a lambda).
| 
| A join-point always has at least one argument.  If there are no
| arguments, then a dummy one of type State# RealWorld is added, to avoid
| creating a thunk.
| 
| Cheers,
| Simon
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