Haven't properly investigated this myself yet, but just in case this
looks familiar to anyone, I get the following, trying to build
2.08 on an alpha, with ghc-0.29.
Unix assembler:
gcc -o absCSyn/PprAbsC.o -c /usr/tmp/ghc10102.s
as1: Internal: /usr/tmp/ghc10102.s, line 32:
Sergey
Thanks for your various messages. I've explained your results below.
You are right to say that
it's hard to be sure what optimisations will happen when; arguably
that's a bad shortcoming of functional programming (especially the lazy sort).
Profiling tools help a bit.
I think, though,