+1 from me. On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Johan Tibell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Johan Tibell <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> >> Benchmark some large program that isn't carefully tuned by using >> strictness in just the right places (like our core libraries tend to be), to >> make sure this change doesn't hurt performance there. I nomiate GHC as the >> candidate program for this test. > > > Here are the nofib compile times of unmodified GHC vs GHC compiled with > -funbox-strict-fields: > > -1 s.d. ----- -3.3% > +1 s.d. ----- +2.5% > Average ----- -0.4% > > (I compiled GHC by adding the flag to GhcStage2HcOpts and GhcLibHcOpts.) > > I can't tell if this is noise or not. At least the compile times seem to > have gone down every so slightly. > > With these three tests out of the way, are people happy with me turning on > the flag by default for the 7.8 release? > > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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