Should GHC default to -O1 ?

[Sean Leather]

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 15:31, Daniel Fischer wrote:

> Often this is because they compiled their programme without optimisations,
> simply recompiling with -O or -O2 yields a decently performing programme.
>
> So I wonder, should ghc compile with -O1 by default?
> What would be the downsides?
>

Previous discussion on this topic:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.haskell.glasgow.user/18540

Regards,
Sean
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