Re: Proposal: Make `NFData` a fundamental/primitive type-class (by making `deepseq` a GHC-boot package)

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 03:23:04PM +0200, Gregory Collins wrote:

On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:

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Proposal: ~~~~~~~~~

Make `NFData` a fundamental/primitive type-class (by making `deepseq` a GHC-boot package)

Moreover, this would pave the way for a future proposal to merge the `deepseq` into `base` at some later point.

I'm strongly in favour of this also. IIRC Ian was the one who objected most strenuously last time. What sayest thou, Ian?

In general, my opinion is still that we should be trying to make base smaller, not larger. Some stats: Directory: ghc-7.0.4/libraries/base ghc-7.2.1/libraries/base Size: 2.8 MB 3.2 MB Exposed GHC.* modules: 62 69 Exposed other modules: 90 102 Private GHC.* modules: 12 12 Private other modules: 0 3 Total modules: 164 186 {-# SOURCE #-} imports: 12 18 [for those stats, I pretended System.Event* was called GHC.Event* in 7.0] That's just my opinion, though. Thanks Ian