Turning on -funbox-small-strict-fields by default in GHC 7.8

[Johan Tibell]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com>wrote:

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>
>    - Run the nofib suite, which now includes some code with strict fields
>    from the language shootout suite, as a sanity check.
>
> Here are the nofib results (using the benchmarks that are enabled by
default):

            Min          -0.1%     -0.0%     -1.4%     -2.7%     -5.7%
            Max          +0.0%     +0.3%     +1.8%     +2.4%     +0.0%
 Geometric Mean          -0.0%     +0.0%     +0.2%     +0.1%     -0.1%

I looked at the outliers and none of them have strict fields so this is
just measuring noise.

Aside: This is another reminder that we who promised to be performance
czars need to look into more reliable benchmarks (with confidence
intervals).
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