I think it should be mostly fine... memory alignment is my main bugbear of a worry, but I guess that requires experimentation 😊😊
On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 6:50 PM Michal Terepeta <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 2:28 AM Sylvain Henry <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I also think we should do this but it has a lot of ramifications: > contant folding in Core, codegen, TH, etc. > > > > Also it will break codes that use primitive types directly, so maybe > it's worth a ghc proposal. > > Ok, a short proposal sounds reasonable. > > I don't think this would break a lot of code - based on a few searches > it seems that people don't really extract `Int#` from > `Int8/Int16/Int32` (similarly with words). > Or am I missing something? > > Thanks, > Michal > > PS. Sorry for slow reply - I was traveling. > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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