Why does SpecConstr run far later than specialisation

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 20.03.2018, 13:23 +0000 schrieb Matthew Pickering:
> As far as I understand it, the goals of SpecConstr and specialisation
> are the same. One works for
> normal value arguments and one works for special type class dictionary
> arguments.
> 
> However, looking at the pass order in `SimplCore`, specialisation runs
> very early before any major simplification but SpecConstr runs very
> late right at the end of the pipeline.
> 
> Does anyone know the justification for this? It seems intuitively that
> they should work in the same way.

Just a guess: We want the demand analyzer to run before SpecConstr,
because I expect that there are many functions where both the demand
analyzer are happy to do something, and SpecConstr is happy to do
something, but the worker-wrapper done by DmdAnal is strictly
preferable (no code duplication, for example.)

But the Specializer and the demand analyzer have no overlap, and we we
do want to strictness-analyzer the type-class-specialized code.

But as I said, it’s just a guess.

Cheers,
Joachim

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