Hi
And strictness is not the biggest problem, a complete lack of any optimisations is, but I'm working on that one too!
It is great to hear that. Of course an optimiser will be beneficial too but I guess that even the benefit that the code generator can have from the strictness analyzer will make huge difference.
In the GHC back end I seem to remember strictness gives a 10% performance improvement, but let motion gives a 30% improvement - its quite likely that .NET will benefit more from strictness, but still the general optimisation is probably going to be a bigger win. I think basic strictness information gained about 5% in the Javascript Yhc backend, so not great amounts. The optimiser does generalised deforestation, and loads of other cool tricks, so I'm hoping for at least 50% over the normal Yhc code :) Thanks Neil