Re: [GHC] #9358: Improve flag description in the user guide
Jan, you said you'd be willing to do this updating before 7.10 Yes, that's the plan. The question is do I have to make it before the mid-November feature freeze? Austin, what's your opinion?
So far as I can see, there simply is no list of what is enabled by -O or -O2. I can make such a list if you want.
It's more than a simple on/off thing because the order matters. Hmm.... in which cases does it matter? Can you give an example?
Janek
For updating the users guide, no, I don't think hitting the freeze is
really necessary. We're mostly worried about big features as opposed
to big documentation upgrades. So do please take your time and let me
know what to merge if you don't get it done by then.
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Jan Stolarek
Jan, you said you'd be willing to do this updating before 7.10 Yes, that's the plan. The question is do I have to make it before the mid-November feature freeze? Austin, what's your opinion?
So far as I can see, there simply is no list of what is enabled by -O or -O2. I can make such a list if you want.
It's more than a simple on/off thing because the order matters. Hmm.... in which cases does it matter? Can you give an example?
Janek
-- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/
| > Jan, you said you'd be willing to do this updating before 7.10 | Yes, that's the plan. The question is do I have to make it before the | mid-November feature freeze? | Austin, what's your opinion? Great. Sooner the better. Post freeze Austin has to do merging work, but not impossible. | > It's more than a simple on/off thing because the order matters. | Hmm.... in which cases does it matter? Can you give an example? Well, for example, as you'll see in SimplCore, the -O1 pipeline runs the float-out twice. So just saying "float-out is on" doesn't tell you all you might want to know. It might be worth translating SimplCore.getCoreToDo into English and putting it in the manual as a rough idea. But maybe that is too much, I'm not sure. (eg it would get out of date) Perhaps just listing what is on by default in -O1 and -O2 would get a long way. Simon
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