Performance of small allocations via prim ops

[Harendra Kumar]

On Fri, 7 Apr 2023 at 12:57, Simon Peyton Jones <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com>
wrote:

> > We are emitting a more efficient code when the size of the array is
> smaller. And the threshold is governed by a compiler flag:
>
> It would be good if this was documented.  Perhaps in the Haddock for
> `newByteArray#`?  Or where?
>

The flag is documented in the GHC user guide but the behavior would be
better discoverable if `newByteArray#` mentions it.

-harendra
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