[GHC] #11011: Type-indexed TypeReps, Static Pointers and Distributed Closures

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#11011: Type-indexed TypeReps, Static Pointers and Distributed Closures
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        Reporter:  bjmprice          |                Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
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Comment (by bjmprice):

 To record a couple of my thoughts:
  - When RAE's nokinds branch merges, we can have kind-hetrogenous type
 equalitys, which would find good use in comparing `TypeRep`s
  - When Injective Type Families is implemented, it ''may'' be useful for
 reducing passing `PolyTag`s around (currently they are not used in the
 code, but needed, else GHC complains about not necessarily injective type
 families)

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