[Haskell-cafe] Re: MD5 performance optimizations, and GHC -via-C producing segfaulting binary

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 20, 2008, at 16:13 , Don Stewart wrote:

> bulat.ziganshin:
>> Hello Andrew,
>>
>> Tuesday, May 20, 2008, 11:05:52 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>>> -funbox-strict-fields.
>>>>
>>
>>> I did try that, but it didn't seem to make any difference for me.  
>>> [Maybe
>>
>> jhc automatically unboxes strict fields of primitive datatypes, which
>> is guaranteed to provide only positive effects. may be somesay the
>> same will be added to ghc
>
> I'm confused. GHC of course unboxes strict fields of primitive data  
> types.
>
>     {-# OPTIONS -O2 -fvia-C -optc-O2 -funbox-strict-fields #-}

I think "automatically" means "without -funbox-strict-fields"....

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