Disable optimization

[Johan Tibell]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Henning Thielemann
<lemming at henning-thielemann.de> wrote:
>
>   I have upgraded to Cabal 1.2 while still using GHC-6.4.1. In the Haskore
>  project there is the module NewResolutions.lhs which let GHC run into
>  extensive swapping (certainly due to excessive memory consumption) on
>  compilation when compiled with optimization. One can say, it cannot be
>  compiled this way. This is clearly a compiler bug, but upgrading the
>  compiler is not an option here. Thus I used unoptimized compilation so
>  far. Now, Cabal 1.2 seems to have optimization set by default. While it
>  was easy to add optimization by using 'GHC-Options' field it is not
>  obvious how to override Cabal defaults.
>   I don't think it was a good idea to switch on optimization silently from
>  one Cabal version to another one. It would have been better to let people
>  configure Cabal globally and manually to use optimization.

But we definitely want optimization on by default to prevent a poor
user experience, right?

-- Johan