[Haskell-cafe] Are newtypes optimised and how much?

[wren ng thornton]

On 10/20/10 7:09 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> Yes, you can freely use Foo/unFoo.  There's no runtime penalty.  (In the jargon of GHC's intermediate language, Foo and unFoo translate to *type-safe casts*, which generate no executable code.

When does the conversion to type-safe casts occur relative to other 
optimizations (namely, rewrite rules)?

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