25 Mar
2009
25 Mar
'09
10:01 p.m.
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:18 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
* More promising might be to say "this is the hot branch". That information about frequency could in principle be used by the back end to generate better code. However, I am unsure how a) to express this info in source code b) retain it throughout optimisation
Claus, last time I asked about this approach Simon filed the following ticket: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/849 If you add a new commentary page then it is at least worth cross-referencing this ticket. Duncan