FYI: removing `fibon`

[Gracjan Polak]

I'm not working on it and do not plan to start again.

Looks like fibon never worked and wasn't used for anything, so it should be
removed. Still it would make sense to replace this code with something used
as part of normal nofib test cases.

2017-03-14 19:59 GMT+01:00 Michal Terepeta <michal.terepeta at gmail.com>:

> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to remove `fibon` (from `nofib`) - it's broken, abandoned
> upstream (no commits in 5 years) and I'm not aware of anyone using it
> or working on it. At this point I don't think it makes sense to try to
> revive it - I'd prefer putting the time/effort into getting a few new
> benchmarks.
>
> There were already discussions about removing it in
> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11501
>
> If someone is actually working on getting it to work again, please
> shout!
>
> Thanks,
> Michal
>
> PS. I've tried uploading the patch to Phab, but I think it's just too
> large (arc is crashing). So I've uploaded it to github:
> https://github.com/michalt/nofib/tree/fibon
>
>
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