<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'm trying to write a mutable hash table library that would work both in the IO and ST monads, so I'm using the PrimMonad typeclass [see JmoyHash.hs in the attached archive]. <br><br></div>For efficiency, I would like the functions to be specialized to the concrete monad at the call site. According to <a href="https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgow_exts.html#specialize-for-imported-functions">Section 9.31.9.2 of the GHC User's Guide</a><br><br><div style="margin-left:40px">The optimiser <em>also</em> considers each <em>imported</em> <tt class=""><span class="">INLINABLE</span></tt>
overloaded function, and specialises it for the different types at which
it is called in <tt class=""><span class="">M</span></tt>. <br><br></div>So I marked all the functions in my library as INLINABLE. Yet adding a SPECIALIZE pragma in Main.hs (currently commented out) for an imported function improves runtime performance by 3x, which should not be happening since, if I understand the manual right, the function should have been specialized anyway since it is marked INLINABLE.<br><br></div>I am writing to this list rather than filing a bug since I'm not sure if I'm reading the manual right and I have not explicitly verified that the specialization is not happening. I would greatly appreciate any help on both counts.<br><br></div>I'm using GHC 8.0.1 with the -O2 flag.<br><br></div>Marking the function as INLINE might solve the problem but that's something I don't want to do as it seems to me that specialization and not inlining is what's appropriate here.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Jyotirmoy Bhattacharya<br></div>