Unpack primitive types by default in data

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 02:13:41 CET 2012


On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been thinking about this some more and I think we should
> definitely unpack primitive types (e.g. Int, Word, Float, Double,
> Char) by default.

Initially we could hide this feature behind a new
-funbox-strict-primitive-fields, but I definitely think we should push
towards making it the default as some of the benefit (especially for
beginners) comes from that.

-- Johan



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