[Haskell-cafe] GHC optimisations

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

overdrigzed:
> > Using the fromInteger (and fromRational) axioms should only *increase*
> > precission, I don't see how that is such a bad thing.
> 
> I think it's bad if the behaviour of your program depends on the
> optimisation level.
> 

Isn't this how the thread started?

    $ gcc     t.c -o a
    $ ./a 100000000
    zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ./a 100000000

    $ gcc -O3 t.c -o b
    $ ./b 100000000 
    987459712

;)

-- Don