Re: Should GHC default to -O1 ?

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:31, Daniel Fischer wrote:

Often this is because they compiled their programme without optimisations, simply recompiling with -O or -O2 yields a decently performing programme.

So I wonder, should ghc compile with -O1 by default? What would be the downsides?

Previous discussion on this topic: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/18540 Regards, Sean