Re: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 8.4.1-rc1 available

Jens Petersen writes: > On 26 February 2018 at 02:42, Ben Gamari wrote: >> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/8.4.1-rc1 > > I'd like to ask: what BuildFlavour are these builds? Perf or something else? > Is there a build.mk file for them? (If so

Re: An idea for a different style of metaprogramming evaluation using the optimiser

You have identified a small inaccuracy in my original email. It is true that ultimately 3 == 0 will be evaluated but these constant folding opportunities are only applied later after other inlining takes place. It becomes quite crucial under this scheme when different optimisations happen