Building GHC for performance testing

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Hi Simon,

On 2014-03-08 at 08:18:20 +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
> On 06/03/14 09:50, Johan Tibell wrote:

[...]

>>   * Are there any tweaks to mk/build.mk <http://build.mk> we can do to
>> make the build faster without compromising the results?
>
> Turn down the stage2 optimisation, and turn off the docs:
>
> GhcStage2HcOpts = -O

...but doesn't that compromise the compile-time metrics collected by
nofib about GHC's performance?

cheers,
  hvr