Re: add INLINEABLE to maybe, either, bool

Contrary to appearances, I fully agree. =) On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Austin Seipp wrote:

I'm strongly opposed to this.

Being INLINE happy is not a good thing, it is a bad thing. More often than not, I see people stuffing INLINE all over the place for things that would trivially be unfolded and put in the interface file anyway. This is bad, and it teaches people to just use the INLINE hammer everywhere instead of understanding the actual implications of what the inliner does. It also makes it impossible to actually observe how the inliner behaves and see where it needs tuning: if we just mark everything INLINE, we might as well not have it and make it unconditional.

There are some particular cases where GHC is hesitant to inline small things if it would lead to work duplication, or where the inliner behavior is tweaked and you may want to force it across multiple versions to be sure (lens is a good example of this.) But this is far more rare, and this case is not that. In particular, Joachim checked the 'bool' commit. As expected, the unfolding for bool was put into the interface file for Data.Bool, meaning if you use -O (or just -O0 -fno-ignore-interface-pragmas,) it should be inlined at call sites appropriately when it is used.

If we're going to INLINE things, we need to make sure it actually has an empirical benefit, by looking at the core, and seeing where the inliner is failing. Not just attach it to things because it seems like a good idea. This also helps drive feedback into the inliner so we can see where it fails.

On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Carter Schonwald wrote:

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Its come to my attention that maybe, either, and its new sibling bool, all lack the INLINEABLE attribute, or its more aggressive sibling INLINE

this seems like one of those operations where inlining in client use sites is a good option to have, and currently not possible!

theres probably other stuff that would benefit from an INLINEABLE pragma in base, but this is an obvious, simple, "easy win" that I noticed when Oliver's patch got merged into base.

Thoughts? Time scale: sometime this week? (ghc 7.8 merge window is landing!)

cheers

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