Would it be a good or bad idea to make dropWhile try to fuse?

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,


Am Freitag, den 25.07.2014, 00:35 -0400 schrieb David Feuer:
> This is generally awful, because it could copy a large portion of the
> list with no benefit. However, if it fuses, it will sometimes give
> good results. For example, compiling
> 
> f m n = foldr (+) 0 $ dropWhile (<m) $ map (+1) [1..n]
> 
> yields Core that does not produce a intermediate list. Does anyone
> have any thoughts about whether this one is worth pursuing?

in general, I’d be doubtful about this. 

I guess it shouldn’t happen unless it fuses on both sides (as then there
is no sharing, is it?) which is probably not easily expressible with
RULES.

Greetings,
Joachim


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