Thanks Simon. I made a page for it here - https://wiki.haskell.org/Inlining_and_Specialisation
Matt On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> wrote: > | On the same topic, I also wrote a blog post simply explaining the > | essential things to know about the inliner and specialiser as I don't > | think they are generally appreciated. Comments welcome! > | > | http://mpickering.github.io/posts/2017-03-20-inlining-and- > | specialisation.html > > Fantastic work Matthew. > > Might you put in the "Collaborative documentation" section of the Haskell > wiki? https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC > > That way others could help edit/maintain/extend it. I have quite a few > suggestions, but most are easier just to execute than to send you suggested > deltas. > > > | The user guide says that "you can make GHC diverge by using SPECIALISE > | INLINE on an ordinarily-recursive function." > > Suppose you have > > f x = ...(f [x])... > > Now I think SPECIALISE INLINE might go on for ever, making more and more > specialised copies. At least I think that's it. Making a concrete example > and putting that in the manual would be great. > > Simon > > | -----Original Message----- > | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of > | Matthew Pickering > | Sent: 20 March 2017 15:52 > | To: GHC developers <ghc-devs@haskell.org> > | Subject: SPECIALISE INLINE pragma > | > | The user guide says that "you can make GHC diverge by using SPECIALISE > | INLINE on an ordinarily-recursive function." > | > | Does anyone know the ticket or technique which causes this to happen? > | > | https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgo > | w_exts.html#specialize-inline > | > | > | > | Matt > | _______________________________________________ > | ghc-devs mailing list > | ghc-devs@haskell.org > | http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs