[GHC] #11011: Add type-indexed type representations (`TypeRep a`)

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#11011: Add type-indexed type representations (`TypeRep a`)
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        Reporter:  bjmprice          |                Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |               Status:  new
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Comment (by bgamari):

 I've put up some notes collected from the course of my implementation
 [[https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Typeable/BenGamari|here]].

 At the moment I am struggling to find a design for serialization (or, more
 specifically, deserialization). The current scheme is described in this
 [[https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Typeable/BenGamari#Deserialization|section]],
 although the need for `unsafeCoerce` is worrying. I'd love to hear what
 others have to say about this.

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