On 16/10/2010 09:57 AM, Max Bolingbroke wrote:
I do not have plans to add it. I think it would be worth it - perhaps worth a few % points in runtime - but I've started researching supercompilation instead, which has more impressive effects :-)
From what I've seen, strict core makes several things simpler and easier to do. So it's not just about how much it speeds up the compiled code; it has the potential to make the compiler implementer's job easier.
Simon has said he is keen to use it though - it's just a big engineering task to replumb GHC to use it, so perhaps this is a project for an enterprising student.
...easier, that is, if you were writing it from scratch. Of course, any non-trivial alteration to a large existing codebase is usually a fair bit of work, but *especially* if you're changing really fundamental assumptions that pervade the entire thing...