[GHC] #14005: Explore moving from pretty to prettyprinter

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#14005: Explore moving from pretty to prettyprinter
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        Reporter:  bgamari           |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  task              |               Status:  new
        Priority:  normal            |            Milestone:
       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.0.1
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 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |            Test Case:
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 Related Tickets:                    |  Differential Rev(s):  Phab:D3650
       Wiki Page:                    |
  wiki:PrettyErrors                  |
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Comment (by simonpj):

 Worth adding data?  Just saying "perf is worse" doesn't tell us much.

 Indeed, standing back a bit, it's strange that pretty-printer perf has
 ''any'' impact on normal compilation.  What do we pretty-print?  Assembly
 code perhaps? That can't be hard!  Perhaps we could

 * Improve perf (perhaps a lot) by using a no-op pretty printer for the
 fast path
 * And improve modularity by using an existing library for the slow path

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