duncan.coutts:

On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 16:46 -0800, Ross Paterson wrote:

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Sun Feb 11 16:45:13 PST 2007 Ross Paterson * add --enable-optimization/--disable-optimization config options (on by default)

M ./Distribution/Setup.hs +9 M ./Distribution/Simple/Configure.hs +1 M ./Distribution/Simple/GHC.hs +1 M ./Distribution/Simple/LocalBuildInfo.hs +1 M ./doc/Cabal.xml +18

This is great (I kept meaning to get round to it!) but I'm not sure it should be on by default. Certainly it should be used by cabal-install since that is a user tool for installing a package, but developers use the Seyup.hs or cabal-setup tools directly and they will not want -O to be on by default I think. If they were building it to install then they'd use the other tool, so if they're using the dev tool then it's likely because they want to do some development work and so will want a shorter build time.

I think developers can be expected to read the docs and turn off optimisations if they like. Everyone else should get -O by default, to avoid bad press ;-) it's easy enough for a developer to alias build="runhaskell Setup --disable-optimization" -- Don