Re: Absence info at run-time

2022-04-13 Thread Andreas Klebinger
W/W should transform such a function into one who takes one less argument removing any runtime overhead at least for fully applied functions. I suppose your suggestion is then if we an expression`f x` where bar takes multiple arguments, but doesn't use the current argument then GHC should: * Ins

Absence info at run-time

2022-04-12 Thread David Feuer
Suppose `f` doesn't use its first argument. When forming the thunk (or partial application) `f a`, we don't need to record `a`. What if instead of arity, we store a bitmap used/absent arguments, terminated by a 1 bit? Could we then get rid of "stupid thunks" like `(const a) b`?