[GHC] #9374: Investigate Static Argument Transformation

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#9374: Investigate Static Argument Transformation
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              Reporter:  jstolarek   |            Owner:
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             Component:  Compiler    |          Version:  7.9
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Comment (by simonpj):

 Nick: mid August would be great!  The surrounding documentation and
 explanation (even paper) is important.  The job turned out to be trickier
 than I expected when you started.  It took weeks to work out why a handful
 of programs were getting worse and to devise analysis/heuristics to avoid
 them.  I don't want someone else to have to re-invent that knowledge, and
 it's very hard to reverse-engineer it from the code.

 Moreover, I remain hopeful that, once written down, someone may see a way
 to achieve the goal with less trickiness.

 Thanks

 Simon

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