#13861: Take more advantage of STG representation invariance (follows up #9291) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: heisenbug | Owner: (none) Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.0.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by simonpj): If the paper doesn't say and there are no comments to explain, the last port of call would be Simon Marlow. Otherwise I'd assume it was just becuase it seemed like the easiest thing, and most data types are smaller. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13861#comment:8 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler