[GHC] #7462: New nofib benchmark for unpacked arrays and floating point arithmetic

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#7462: New nofib benchmark for unpacked arrays and floating point arithmetic
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Reporter:  tibbe             |          Owner:                       
    Type:  feature request   |         Status:  new                  
Priority:  normal            |      Component:  NoFib benchmark suite
 Version:  7.6.1             |       Keywords:                       
      Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple     
 Failure:  None/Unknown      |      Blockedby:                       
Blocking:                    |        Related:                       
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 The attached patch adds a new imaginary nofib benchmark that tests
 unpacked arrays and floating point arithmetic in tight loops. I believe
 this combination is very important in practice, but somewhat
 underrepresented in the benchmark suite.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/7462>
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