Simon Peyton Jones pushed to branch wip/spj-try-opt-coercion at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: 9a9ae4df by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-05T14:44:37-04:00 Use __attribute__((dllimport)) for external RTS symbol declarations This is needed to be hygenic about DLL symbol imports and exports. The attribute is ignored on platforms other than Windows. Use of the attribute however means that external data symbols do not have a compile-time constant address (they are loaded using an indirection). This means we have to adjust the rtsSyms initial linker table so that it is a local constant in a function, rather than a global constant. We now define it within a function that pre-populates the symbol table with the RTS symbols. - - - - - 2ad3e01e by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-05T14:44:37-04:00 Fix the rts linker declarations for a few data symbols and ensure that the (windows only) rts_IOManagerIsWin32Native data symbol is marked as externally visible. - - - - - 8ff4fdb5 by David Eichmann at 2026-05-05T14:44:37-04:00 Hadrian: Disable runtime pseudo relocations for RTS on windows hosts - - - - - 96974723 by Teo Camarasu at 2026-05-05T14:45:20-04:00 ghci/TH: refactor to use IORef QState This is a pure refactor and shouldn't modify semantics at all - - - - - eff6bfaf by Teo Camarasu at 2026-05-05T14:45:20-04:00 iserv: recover/getQ/putQ should behave same as internal interpreter The internal and external interpreter should behave the same when handling `recover`, the exeception recovery method of Q. In practice, they diverge. In case of failure, the internal interpreter only restores error message state to before the computation, wheras the external interperter restores error message state *and* the state of putQ/getQ. As far as I can tell this is a simple mistake in the implementation. Note [TH recover with -fexternal-interpreter] describes the correct behaviour but the implementation doesn't mirror this. This change restores the correct behaviour by keeping the effects of putQ in the erroring computation. This is a breaking change since it modifies the behaviour of programs that rely on recover ignoring putQ from failling computations when used with the external interpreter. Although I highly doubt anyone relies on this behaviour. This divergence was first introduced in d00c308633fe7d216d31a1087e00e63532d87d6d. As far as I can tell this was unintentional and tha commit was trying to solve a different bug. Resolves #27022 - - - - - 1cb1d672 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Add dynamic trace flags API This commit adds an API to the RTS (exposed via Rts.h) that allows users to dynamically change the trace flags. Prior to this commit, users were able to stop and start the profiling and heap profiling timers (via startProfTimer/stopProfTimer and startHeapProfTimer/stopHeapProfTimer). This extends that functionality to also cover the core event types. The getTraceFlag/setTraceFlag functions read and write the values of the trace flag cache, which is allocated by Trace.c, rather than modifying the members of RtsFlags.TraceFlags. This is done under the assumption that the members of RtsFlags should not be modified after RTS initialisation. Consequently, if the user modifies the trace flags using setTraceFlag, the object returned by getTraceFlags (from base) will not reflect these changes. The trace flags are not protected by locks of any sort. Hence, these functions are not thread-safe. However, the trace flags are not modified by the RTS after initialisation, only read, so the race conditions introduced by one user modifying them are most likely benign. This PR also puts the trace flag cache in a single global struct, as opposed to a collection of global variables, and changes the types of the individual flags from uint8_t to bool, as these have the same size on both Clang and GCC and are a better semantic match. Prior to the change to uint8_t, they had type int, see 42c47cd6. Even with its deprecation in C23, I don't think there should be any issue depending on stdbool.h. The TRACE_X macros are redefined to access the global struct, with values cast to const bool to ensure they are read-only. - - - - - 9d54dc94 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Ensure TRACE_X values are used in place of RtsFlags.TraceFlags.X - - - - - 418d737b by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Fix nonmoving-GC tracing The current nonmoving-GC tracing functions were written in a different style from the other tracing functions. They were directly implemented as, e.g., a traceConcMarkEnd function that called postConcMarkEnd. The other tracing functions are implemented as, e.g., traceThreadLabel_, a function that posts the thread label event, and traceThreadLabel, a macro that checks whether TRACE_scheduler is set. This commit fixes that implementation, and ensures that the nonmoving-GC tracing functions only emit events if nonmoving-GC tracing is enabled. - - - - - 99f4afa4 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Add SymI_HasProto for get/setTraceFlag - - - - - 7e9eb8b9 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:40-04:00 rts: Add SymI_HasProto for start/endEventLogging - - - - - 3a3045fb by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-06T09:53:41-04:00 rts: Add changelog entry - - - - - a3b339a4 by Teo Camarasu at 2026-05-06T09:54:25-04:00 interface-stability/base: don't distinguish ws-32 The interface of base is identical when the Word size is 32bits. Therefore, there is no need to have another file for this case. So, we delete it. Step towards: #26752 - - - - - eb922183 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Add a rts posix FdWakup utility module This will be used to implement wakeupIOManager for in-RTS I/O managers. It provides a notification/wakeup mechanism using FDs, suitable for situations when a thread is blocked on a set of fds anyway. It uses the classic self-pipe trick, or equivalently eventfd on supported platforms. This will initially be used to implement prompt interrupt or shutdown of the posix ticker thread. - - - - - 01b0e233 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Add prompt shutdown to the pthread ticker implementation. The Linux timerfd ticker monitors a pipe which is used by exitTicker to ensure a prompt wakeup and shutdown. The pthread ticker lacked this and so would only exit at the next ticker wakeup (10ms by default). This patch adds the same mechanism to the pthread ticker. This changes the pthread ticker from waiting by using nanosleep() to waiting using either ppoll() or select(), so that it can wait on both a time and a file descriptor. On Linux at least, a test program to compare the timing jitter of these APIs shows that using nanpsleep, ppoll or select makes no statistical difference to the maximum or average jitter. This is a step towards unifying the posix ticker implementations, so that we can have just one portable one (albeit with some limited cpp). It is also a step towards using the ticker as part of a more general implementation of wakeUpRts, since this will require a method to wake the rts from a signal handler context (ctl-c handler). - - - - - bc41d646 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Update ticker header commentary It was antique and didn't apply even to the previous implementation, and certainly not to the updated one. - - - - - 4ed9a386 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Remove the timerfd-based ticker implementation There does not appear to be any remaining advantage on Linux to using the timerfd ticker implementation over the portable one (using ppoll on Linux for precise timing). The eventfd implementation was originally added at a time when Linux was still using a signal based implementation. So it made sense at the time. See (closed) issue #10840. - - - - - 97504fa6 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-07T14:28:50+01:00 Consolidate to a single posix ticker implementation Previously we had four implementations, two using signals and two using threads. Having just one should make behaviour more consistent between platforms, and should make maintenance easier. - - - - - 1e60023b by Facundo Domínguez at 2026-05-07T18:01:16-04:00 Generalize so_inline to specify which bindings should be preserved This commit generalizes the so_inline option of the simple optimizer so we can indicate with a predicate the specific bindings that should be kept. This feature is important for the LiquidHaskell plugin, which relies on the simple optimizer to make core programs easier to read, but needs to preserve bindings that are relevant for verification. See https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/24386 for the full discussion. - - - - - 44cf9cd7 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-12T09:48:18-04:00 Move the `Text.Read` implementation into `base` - - - - - 4ac3f7d6 by Vladislav Zavialov at 2026-05-12T09:49:03-04:00 EPA: Use AnnParen for tuples and sums Summary of changes * Do not use AnnParen in XListTy, replace it with EpToken "[" and "]" * Specialise AnnParen to tuple/sums by dropping the AnnParensSquare and keeping only AnnParens and AnnParensHash * Use AnnParen in XExplicitTuple * Use AnnParen in XExplicitTupleTy * Use AnnParen in XTuplePat * Use AnnParen in XExplicitSum (via AnnExplicitSum) * Use AnnParen in XSumPat (via EpAnnSumPat) This is a refactoring with no user-facing changes. - - - - - 1bdcddec by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add minimal dlltool support to ghc-toolchain The dlltool is a tool that can create dll import libraries from .def files. These .def files list the exported symbols of dlls. Its somewhat like gnu linker scripts, but more limited. We will need dlltool to build the rts and ghc-internal libraries as DLLs on Windows. The rts and ghc-internal libraries have a recursive dependency on each other. Import libraries can be used to resolve recursive dependencies between dlls. We will use an import library for the rts when linking the ghc-internal library. - - - - - f7fc3770 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add minimal dlltool support into ./configure Find dlltool, and hopefully support finding it within the bundled llvm toolchain on windows. - - - - - e4e22bfb by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Update the default host and target files for dlltool support - - - - - 5666c8f9 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add dlltool as a hadrian builder Optional except on windows. - - - - - 5e14fe3f by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Update and generate libHSghc-internal.def from .def.in file The only symbol that the rts imports from the ghc-internal package now is init_ghc_hs_iface. So the rts only needs an import lib that defines that one symbol. Also, remove the libHSghc-prim.def because it is redundant. The rts no longer imports anything from ghc-prim. Keep libHSffi.def for now. We may yet need it once it is clear how libffi is going to be built/used for ghc. - - - - - 3d91e4a6 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00 Add rule to build libHSghc-internal.dll.a and link into the rts On windows only, with dynamic linking. This is needed because on windows, all symbols in dlls must be resolved. No dangling symbols allowed. References to external symbols must be explicit. We resolve this with an import library. We create an import library for ghc-internal, a .dll.a file. This is a static archive containing .o files that define the symbols we need, and crucially have ".idata" sections that specifies the symbols the dll imports and from where. Note that we do not install this libHSghc-internal.dll.a, and it does not need to list all the symbols exported by that package. We create a special purpose import lib and only use it when linking the rts dll, so it only has to list the symbols that the rts uses from ghc-internal (which is exactly one symbol: init_ghc_hs_iface). - - - - - c8dae539 by Alice Rixte at 2026-05-12T09:50:52-04:00 Script for downloading and copying `base-exports` file - - - - - 5fab2238 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-12T21:24:27+03:00 Introduce a cache of home module name providers This contribution introduces to the module graph a cache that maps home module names to sets of units providing them and changes the finder to use that cache. This is a performance optimization, especially for multi-home-unit builds. The particular changes are as follows: * In `GHC.Unit.Module.Graph`, `ModuleGraph` is extended with a new field `mg_home_module_name_providers_map`, exposed as `mgHomeModuleNameProvidersMap`. This is a cache that assigns to each home module name the set of IDs of home units that define it. Operations that construct module graphs are updated such that this cache stays synchronized. * In `GHC.Unit.Finder`, `findImportedModule` is changed to pull `mgHomeModuleNameProvidersMap` from `hsc_mod_graph` and pass it to `findImportedModuleNoHsc`, which now does not search home units in arbitrary order but prioritizes those units that the cache mentions as potential providers of the requested module. In addition, this contribution adds variants of the two multi-component compiler performance tests that use 100 units instead of 20, because with just 20 units the benefits from caching of home module name providers are still negligible. The following table shows the total time needed for running both multi-component tests before and after this contribution and with different numbers of units: | # of units | Before | After | |-----------:|-------:|------:| | 20 | 0:12 | 0:12 | | 100 | 0:47 | 0:42 | | 200 | 3:05 | 2:08 | Note that there seems to be a general overhead of 12 seconds that is not attributable to the actual tests, so that the real running times should be 12 seconds smaller than shown above. Resolves #27055. Metric Decrease: MultiComponentModules MultiComponentModulesRecomp Co-authored-by: Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Fendor <fendor@posteo.de> - - - - - 38b76b2f by Cheng Shao at 2026-05-13T17:48:48-04:00 testsuite: mark T22159 as fragile This patch marks T22159 as fragile on Windows for issue described in #27248. Before we get to the bottom of those failures, this unblocks newer Windows runners. - - - - - 50188615 by Ian Duncan at 2026-05-14T13:45:07+02:00 AArch64: use ASR not LSR for MO_U_Shr at W8/W16 The unsigned right shift (MO_U_Shr) for sub-word widths (W8, W16) with a variable shift amount was emitting ASR (arithmetic/signed shift right) after zero-extending with UXTB/UXTH. This should be LSR (logical/unsigned shift right). After zero-extension the upper bits happen to be 0 so ASR produces the same result, but it is semantically wrong and would break if the zero-extension were ever optimized away. Includes assembly output test (grep for lsr) and runtime test verifying unsigned right shift of Word8 and Word16 values. - - - - - 28666fbf by Vladislav Zavialov at 2026-05-19T12:44:05-04:00 Add type families: Tuple, Constraints, Tuple#, Sum# (#27179) These type families map tuples of types to the corresponding Tuple<N>, Tuple<N>#, CTuple<N>, and Sum<N># types. Some examples at N=2: Tuple (Int, Bool) = Tuple2 Int Bool Constraints (Show a, Eq a) = CTuple2 (Show a) (Eq a) Tuple# (Int#, Float#) = Tuple2# Int# Float# Sum# (Int#, Float#) = Sum2# Int# Float# See GHC Proposal #145 "Non-punning list and tuple syntax". To make the Sum# instance at N=64 possible, this patch also introduces the Sum64# constructor declaration and bumps mAX_SUM_SIZE from 63 to 64. Metric Increase: ghc_experimental_dir - - - - - 41c2448b by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-19T12:44:53-04:00 rts: Add IPE event class for -l This commit adds a new IPE event class to the -l RTS flag. Previously, IPE events were enabled unconditionally. However, the IPE events can easily grow to hundreds or thousands of megabytes. With the new event class you can pass, e.g., -l-I to disable IPE events. - - - - - 62536551 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-19T12:44:53-04:00 ghc-internal: Add TraceFlags.traceIPE - - - - - e45312d1 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-19T12:44:53-04:00 testsuite: Add test for TraceFlags.traceIpe - - - - - 4768d9aa by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-19T12:44:53-04:00 ghc-internal: Add DebugFlags.ipe - - - - - bc1b5c69 by Wen Kokke at 2026-05-19T12:44:53-04:00 testsuite: Add test for DebugFlags.ipe - - - - - 0da1543f by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-19T12:45:37-04:00 Document removal of the signal-based interval timer Update mentions within the RTS section of the users guide. Add a changelog entry. - - - - - b2911514 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-19T12:45:37-04:00 Fix section for an recent changelog entry - - - - - d6d76a7a by David Eichmann at 2026-05-19T12:46:19-04:00 ghc-toolchain: implement llvm program versioning logic - - - - - 2dd36fa3 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-20T04:49:52-04:00 Turn `Trustworthy` into `Safe` in `base` where possible - - - - - f4399dd1 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-20T04:50:37-04:00 Make the current `base` buildable with GHC 10.0 - - - - - 1a7de232 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-20T12:26:25-04:00 Hadrian: remove legacy rts .so symlinks For compatibility with the old makefile based build system, hadrian had rules to generate symlinks from unversioned to versioned names for the rts .so/.dynlib file, like libHSrts-ghcx.y.so -> libHSrts-1.0.3-ghcx.y.so We no longer need these symlinks since the makefile build system has been retired some time ago. The need for these symlinks is awkward on windows where we cannot (in practice) create symlinks. So rather than make them conditional (non-windows), just remove them entirely. - - - - - 286f1adf by fendor at 2026-05-20T12:27:09-04:00 Fix regression T27202: `:load` and `:add` work in GHCi To fix the regression there are conceptually two major things that we fix: * We don't remove the `importDirs` from `interactive-session` * When `:add`ing a module, we don't try to find them via PackageImports * The PackageImport is wrong as we can't know the package-name at this stage in ghc/UI.hs What does it mean to not remove the `importDirs` from `interactive-session`? It means that, given some initial `DynFlags`, we will use those `importDirs` in `interactive-session`. The initial `DynFlags`, however, depend on how you initialise the GHC session. For a simple session, initialised by ghc -isrc -this-unit-id main It is simple, just use the `DynFlags` given on the cli. Thus, `main` and `interactive-session` will have the same `DynFlags`, except for the `homeUnitId` and `interactive-session` depends on `main` by construction of the GHCi session. What about a multiple home unit session, though? ghc -unit @unit1 -unit @unit2 What are the `DynFlags` in this cli invocation? It shouldn't be either `@unti1` nor `@unit2`, as the order shouldn't matter or any other implicit condition. For consistency, we decide that the initial `DynFlags` are the top `DynFlags` on the cli, ignoring `-unit` flags. Thus, in this example, there are no `importsDirs` regardless of what we might find in `@unit1` and `@unit2`. But in this invocation: ghc -isrc -unit @unit1 -unit @unit2 The `interactive-session` will have the `importsDirs` `src`. Note, `-isrc` will be inherited in `@unit1` and `@unit2`, so you need to explicitly use `-i` to clear the `importsDirs`, in order to avoid accidentally adding `src` as an import directory to all other home units. This fix has been made possible by the improvements introduced in !15888, which avoids ambiguity when a home unit shares the `importsDirs` with the `interactive-session`, on top of being much faster for multiple home units. Adds regression tests for T27202 for `:load`ing and `:add`ing modules that are located in import directories. - - - - - 728662de by fendor at 2026-05-20T12:27:09-04:00 Use home unit package db stacks in GHCi prompt and session unit In order to import modules from home unit dependencies (e.g., `Data.Map`), the ghci prompt unit needs to populate its `UnitState`. This is tricky to handle correctly, which `PackageDBFlag`s should we use to populate the `UnitState`? We decide, the most intuitive solution for users is to depend on all `PackageDBFlag`s, so that any dependency can be imported in GHCi. This assumes consistency in the `PackageDBFlag`s, so no two home units specify `PackageDBFlag`s that are inconsistent with each other. We could simply concat all the `PackageDBFlag`s of the existing home units, but later `PackageDBFlag`s shadow earlier ones, leading to the last processed home units' `PackageDBFlag`s to shadow the earlier ones. This is hard to fix, we need to give users the capability to provide ghc options for the ghci prompt home unit. However, as this is considerably more work, we decided on an approximation that should work out most of the time. Package Db stacks in cabal and stack follow a certain structure: -no-user-package-db > -package-db $cabal-store > -package-db $local-db The first two arguments are always the same, namely the `-no-user-package-db` and `-package-db`. We compute the longest common prefix over all home units, and use that as the start of the package db stack. Then, over the rest of the `PackageDBFlag`s, we simply take the union and append them to our initial stack. We assume, that the rest of package dbs only defines very few, "local" units that are usually not shadowing each other. This allows us to get a relatively consistent package database stack for the ghci prompt home unit. Similar reasoning applies to the session unit in order to add modules to the session and have dependencies available in the module. We do something similar for `-package` flags, to make sure only the correct units are actually visible in the ghci session. This time, we simply take the union of all `PackageFlag`s, allowing us to import modules from the home unit dependencies. In the future, it would be beneficial to allow the user to provide the exact ghc options to control the visibilities. For now, this will have to do. - - - - - 740d89a0 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-05-20T17:20:44-04:00 Do not use mkCast during typechecking This commit fixes #27219. The problem was that the typechecker was using `mkCast`, whose assertion checks legitimately fail when applied to types that contain unification variables. - - - - - a50fdb06 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-05-20T17:20:45-04:00 Major refactor of the Simplifier The main payload of this patch is to refactor the Simplifer to avoid repeated simplification when using Plan (AFTER) for rule rewrites. The need for this was shown up by #26989. See Note [Avoid repeated simplification] in GHC.Core.Opt.Simplify.Iteration. Related refactoring: * Refactor the two fields `sc_dup` and `sc_env` in `ApplyToVal` into one, `sc_env`. Reason: the envt is irrelevant in the "simplified" case, so the data type describes the possiblitiies much more accurately now. * Some refactoring in `knownCon` to split off `wrapDataConFloats`. * Refactor `lookupRule` and its auxiliary functions to return `RuleMatch`, a new data type. See Note [data RuleMatch] in GHC.Core. Ditto for BuiltinRule. This RuleMatch returns fragments of the target in rm_args and rm_floats, leaving `rm_rhs` to be the stuff from the RULE itself. Doing this has routine consequences in GHC.Core.Opt.ConstantFold. Many changes there but all routine. * When doing occurrence analysis on RULEs, make the occ-info on the rule binders relate just to the RHS, not the LHS. See (OUR1) in Note Note [OccInfo in unfoldings and rules] This means that Lint must not complain about the fact that the patterns in the RULE mentions binders that are marked dead. See Note [Dead occurrences] in GHC.Core.Lint. I changed the Core pretty-printer so that it didn't suppress dead binders, else I can't see those binders in RULEs. That led to quite a lot of testsuite wibbles. * Refactor FloatBinds, so that it is used both by `exprIsConApp_mabye` and by `lookupRule` * Move the definition of FloatBinds out of GHc.Core.Make, into GHC.Core. * Add FloatTick as an extra constructor. * Refactor `lookupRule` to use `FloatBinds` instead of `BindWrapper`. This refactor just shares more code. (Rename GHC.Core.Opt.FloatOut.FloatBinds to FloatLets, to avoid gratuitious name clash with GHC.Core.FloatBinds.) Corecion optimisation * In simpleOpt, when composing coercions, call new function `optTransCo`. This is much lighter weight than full blown coercion optimisation. * Make `GHC.Core.Opt.Arity.pushCoValArg` and `pushCoTyArg` return the coercionLKind of the coercion. This saves recomputing that coercionLKind at the key call sites in GHC.Core.Opt.Simplify.Iteration.pushCast. * Rename `addCoerce` in GHC.Core.Simplify.Iteration to become `pushCast`. * In the `ApplyToVal` case of `pushCast` we had a very unsavoury call to `simplArg`. I eliminated it by adding a field `sc_cast` to `ApplyToVal` that records any pending casts. Much nicer now. See Note [The sc_cast field of ApplyToVal]. * Don't optimise coercions if the type-substitution is empty. See Note [Optimising coercions] in GHC.Core.Opt.Simplify.Iteration. The fix for #26838 is dramatic. For the test in perf/compiler/T26839 we have Compiler allocs: Before: 7,363M After: 688M Compile time goes down generally. Here are compiler-alloc changes over 0.5%: CoOpt_Read(normal) 729,184,920 -0.7% CoOpt_Singletons(normal) 666,916,960 -4.6% GOOD LargeRecord(normal) 1,227,056,876 +1.1% T12227(normal) 256,827,604 -4.6% GOOD T12425(optasm) 76,879,410 -0.8% T12545(normal) 787,826,918 -10.8% GOOD T12707(normal) 775,186,464 -0.9% T13253(normal) 318,599,596 -0.8% T14766(normal) 685,857,320 -1.0% T15304(normal) 1,123,333,422 -2.2% T15630(normal) 123,142,330 -2.6% T15630a(normal) 123,092,100 -2.6% T15703(normal) 299,751,682 -2.9% GOOD T17516(normal) 964,072,280 +1.0% T18223(normal) 367,016,820 -6.2% GOOD T18730(optasm) 130,643,770 -3.3% GOOD T20261(normal) 535,608,584 -0.7% T21839c(normal) 340,340,436 -0.9% T24984(normal) 85,568,392 -1.9% T3064(normal) 174,631,992 -1.2% T3294(normal) 1,215,886,432 -0.7% T5030(normal) 141,449,704 -17.2% GOOD T5321Fun(normal) 258,484,744 -1.9% T8095(normal) 770,532,232 -2.7% T9630(normal) 858,423,408 -14.5% GOOD T9872c(normal) 1,591,709,448 +0.7% info_table_map_perf(normal) 19,700,614,458 -1.3% geo. mean -0.7% minimum -17.2% maximum +1.1% However, strangely there seems to be a 5.0% increase in CoOpt_Read in the x86_64-linux-fedora43-validate+debug_info+ubsan job, although there generally a /decrease/ in this test in other builds. The baseline value looks strange. Anyway I'll just accept it. Metric Decrease: CoOpt_Singletons T12227 T12545 T12707 T15703 T18223 T18730 T21839c T5030 T9630 Metric Increase: CoOpt_Read - - - - - 834623d4 by Mrjtjmn at 2026-05-20T17:21:41-04:00 users-guide: Fix weird notation in "Summary of stolen syntax" - - - - - dcc08455 by Simon Peyton Jones at 2026-05-20T22:46:53+01:00 Drastically reduce the use of the coercion optimiser This MR addresess #26679 by calling the coercion optimiser much less often; the coercion optimiser is expensive, and often ineffective, especially when it is called repeatedly. See Note [Coercion optimisation] in GHC.Core.Corecion.Opt. Specifically * Make coercion optimisation into its own pass, controlled by its own flag `-fopt-coercion` like any other pass. The pass runs early in the pipeline. * The Simplifier now contents itself with merely applying the current substitution to a coercion, and checking for reflexivity. * Kill off OptCoercionOpts, which is now unused. Another important, but only loosely related, improvement * In `GHC.Core.Subst.substIdBndr`, `GHC.Core.TyCo.Subst.substTyVarBndrUsing`, and `GHC.Core.TyCo.Subst.substTyVarBndrUsing`, check for an empty substitution. This keeps substitutions empty in the no-op case. See Note [Keeping the substitution empty] in GHC.Core.TyCo.Subst Compile time improves. Here are the compile-time allocation change over 1%: Baseline Test value Change ------------------------------------------------------------ CoOpt_Singletons(normal) 721,677,974 -7.9% GOOD LargeRecord(normal) 1,268,094,410 -20.4% GOOD T12545(normal) 772,150,124 -9.2% T12707(normal) 777,720,918 -1.5% GOOD T14766(normal) 918,228,179 -50.2% GOOD T15703(normal) 318,141,541 +1.0% BAD T18223(normal) 371,496,473 -7.6% GOOD T1969(normal) 670,830,326 +2.2% BAD T20261(normal) 573,444,953 -2.2% T24984(normal) 87,836,660 -1.5% T3064(normal) 171,636,592 -6.2% GOOD T5030(normal) 148,301,062 -16.4% GOOD T5321Fun(normal) 263,120,022 -3.3% GOOD T8095(normal) 777,033,006 -71.3% GOOD T9020(optasm) 222,159,574 -2.5% GOOD T9630(normal) 873,422,584 -15.4% GOOD T9872b(normal) 1,906,890,318 -2.9% GOOD T9872b_defer(normal) 2,878,170,737 -2.1% GOOD T9872d(normal) 356,978,798 -7.7% GOOD TcPlugin_RewritePerf(normal) 2,132,138,060 -2.6% GOOD geo. mean -2.7% minimum -71.3% maximum +2.2% Metric Decrease: CoOpt_Singletons LargeRecord T12707 T14766 T18223 T3064 T5030 T5321Fun T8095 T9020 T9630 T9872b T9872b_defer T9872d TcPlugin_RewritePerf Metric Increase: T15703 T1969 Serious attempt to avoid duplicating large coercions Wibbles Progress on not-inlining coercions Add a type signature More on exported coercions More on coercion bindings Allow in letrec; indeed make the invariants for letrec the same as the invariants for top-level bindings. ToDo: document this Fix expression-equality for (Coercion co) We were just saying "True" which is utterly wrong. See Note [Equality for coercions] in GHC.Core.Map.Type Wibbles on coercion bindings Try a very cheap coercion optimiser Wibble simple opt Comments -- almost all just about core invariants [skip ci] Fuse optCoRefl and substCo Maybe this will be better than either fix Opt [skip ci] Wibble Update Notes about core binding invariants T26332 really should fail with -dlinear-core-lint Try switching off the big optCoercion except in O2 Comments only Try dropping all optimisation The Simplifier just calls substCo, instead of optCoRefl Flags for tracing coercion sizes More optCoRefl * Deal with submultiplicities * In InitialPhase run even with empty subst Update user manual Care with the simple refl optimiser [skip ci] Wibble Wibbles Fix build ..one-character bug in optCoRefl! 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