28 Sep
2020
28 Sep
'20
5:57 a.m.
Ryan, the comment in GHC.Tuple seems to be misleading today, as suggested by this SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46412823/why-are-ghc-tuples-limited-to-s...
I was going to add it to the comment at some point but was hesitant as I hadn’t verified the information myself.
For what it's worth, Ben has removed this comment in !4146 [1], where he increases the maximum tuple size to 64. This is enough to unblock me on progressing with !4097, so I'm happy. There seems to be a more general question of whether it makes sense to enforce a size limit at all for unboxed tuples, but I'll leave that question to people more knowledgeable than I am. Ryan S. ----- [1] https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/4146