Coding style: Using StandaloneKindSignatures in GHC

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Fri May 21 14:31:28 UTC 2021


Carter Schonwald <carter.schonwald at gmail.com> writes:

> Silly question: when will stand alone kind sigs speed up type checking
> phase of compilation?
>
I'm not hopeful that the sort of kind signatures given by Baldur could
ever significantly affect compilation performance. As far as I can tell,
inferring such simple signatures just isn't that much work compared to
everything else that the compiler does.

Cheers,

- Ben
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