[GHC] #9792: map/coerce rule never seems to fire

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#9792: map/coerce rule never seems to fire
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              Reporter:  dfeuer      |            Owner:  ekmett
                  Type:  bug         |           Status:  new
              Priority:  normal      |        Milestone:  7.10.1
             Component:  Core        |          Version:  7.9
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            Resolution:              |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
      Operating System:              |       Difficulty:  Unknown
  Unknown/Multiple                   |       Blocked By:
       Type of failure:  Runtime     |  Related Tickets:
  performance bug                    |
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Comment (by simonpj):

 Tracking stack depths: this will go away when Richard completes his work
 of treating Coercible constraints more like nominal-equality constraints.

 However, a value of type `Coercible a b` can certainly be bottom in Core,
 even if type inference engine will never produce it.

 More promising is just to make functions strict in `Coercible` arguments.
 I should look again at `-fdicts-strict`.

 Meanwhile Richard is also thinking about the whole lifted/unlifted
 equality thing, and I'd like to see how the dust settles there.

 Simon

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