ANNOUNCE: GHC version 6.8.3 binary-dists

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| maybe you can suggest a global flag setting that avoids too much
| inlining during optimization.

As I said to Serge, I *think* all this arises from the *unconditional* inlining of instance declarations, which isn't under flag control unfortunately.  The only fix at the moment is to write instance decls whose code is small -- just call a separate top-level function
        instance C T where
          op = op_T

        op_T = ....

But this is highly unsatisfactory.  I just need to find a clear day or two to look into this carefully.  Stay tuned.

Simon

| Cheers Christian
|
| Christian Maeder wrote:
| > No (at least I don't think so). I suspect that we some "expensive" class
| > instances (for our class Logic). Here is a list of our biggest
| > object-files under linux:
| >