> We really want people to use the new primops, not the wrappers
We do? Could you justify why we want to people to use primops? Wrappers are 
equivalent to previous 
implementation of primops: previously we had call to tagToEnum# generated 
implicitly by the code 
generator, whereas now we have an explicit call to tagToEnum# in the source 
code of the wrappers. 
I don't see a reason why we might want to break people's code, except for maybe 
making them aware 
that there was some change in primops implementation. I think that from the 
beginning new primops 
were meant to be used in branchless algorithms - most people don't need that. 
Also, Simon PJ has 
come up with an idea for some optimisations that would deal with tagToEnum# at 
the Core level, 
but I will almost certainly not have time to implement them during my 
internship.

> Is it too late to change this?
I think that before 7.8 is released we can change anything we want in these 
primops. We just need 
to decide what we want - I've spent last Friday on making primops change 
completely backwards 
compatible.

Janek

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