You do know about -funbox-strict-fields, a flag that exists already, don't you. (Sorry if I'm behind the curve here; have not followed the thread.)
S | -----Original Message----- | From: glasgow-haskell-users-boun...@haskell.org [mailto:glasgow-haskell- | users-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Johan Tibell | Sent: 17 February 2012 01:14 | To: glasgow-haskell-users | Subject: Re: Unpack primitive types by default in data | | On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: | > I've been thinking about this some more and I think we should | > definitely unpack primitive types (e.g. Int, Word, Float, Double, | > Char) by default. | | Initially we could hide this feature behind a new | -funbox-strict-primitive-fields, but I definitely think we should push | towards making it the default as some of the benefit (especially for | beginners) comes from that. | | -- Johan | | _______________________________________________ | Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list | Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
