On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On the haskell-cafe as well as the beginners mailing lists, there > frequently (for some value of frequent) are posts where the author inquires > about a badly performing programme, in the form of stack overflows, space > leaks or slowness. > > Often this is because they compiled their programme without optimisations, > simply recompiling with -O or -O2 yields a decently performing programme. > > So I wonder, should ghc compile with -O1 by default? > What would be the downsides?
I think this is an excellent idea. Even better -O2. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
