Hi, is the following problem a job for ghc or the code generation backend (llvm)? We are given this program: {-# LANGUAGE BangPatterns #-} module Main where f :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int -> Int f !i !j !s !m | i == 0 = s+m | otherwise = f (i-1) (j-1) (s + i+1) (m + j*5) g :: Int -> Int g !k = f k k 0 0 ff :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int ff !i !s !m | i == 0 = s+m | otherwise = ff (i-1) (s + i+1) (m + i*5) gg :: Int -> Int gg !k = ff k 0 0 main = do print $ g 20 print $ gg 20 Here, 'f' and 'g' are a representation of the code I have. Both counters 'i' and 'j' in 'f' count from the same value with the same step size and terminate at the same time but are not reduced to just one counter. Can I reasonably expect this to be done by the code generator? 'ff' represents what I would like to see. Btw. look at the core, to see that indeed 'f' keep four arguments. Functions like 'f' are a result of vector-fusion at work but can be written by oneself as well. The point is that if 'f' gets reduced to 'ff' then I can have this: fun k = zipWith (+) (map f1 $ mkIdxs k) (map f2 $ mkIdxs k) which makes for nicer code sometimes; but before rewriting I wanted to ask if that kills performance. Thanks, Christian