[Haskell-cafe] GHC optimizations and unsafePerformIO - Was: Data.Typeable TypeRep Ord instance.

[Andreas Baldeau]

Thinking about this there might be one problem:

Without having looked further into this I think perfomance might not
be as expected. Using unsafePerformIO affects ghc's optimzations,
doesn't it?

So I wonder if it's a good idea (from a performance point of view) to
use this.

> 2010/12/30 Andreas Baldeau <andreas at baldeau.net>:
> > instance Ord TypeRep where
> >    compare t1 t2 =
> >        compare
> >            (unsafePerformIO (typeRepKey t1))
> >            (unsafePerformIO (typeRepKey t2))

> > typeRepKey :: TypeRep -> IO Int
> > typeRepKey (TypeRep (Key i) _ _) = return i

So the question is, if ghc could transform this to simply compare the
keys throwing away unsafePerformIO and return.