Hello Simon, Tuesday, November 14, 2006, 4:31:27 PM, you wrote:
> Sure, since gzip is the metric, then we can optimise for that. For example, > instead of writing a higher-order function, just copy it out N times > instantiating the higher-order argument differently each time. There should > be > no gzipped-code-size penalty for doing that, and it'll be faster :-) i hope that ghc 6.8 will include -Ogzip! switch which transforms program so it becomes more compressible by gzip. also jhc's recent haskell-to-ghc translation mode may be optimized in this way, so jhc will finally outperform ghc as a best shootout platform :) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
