[Haskell-cafe] parsec2 vs. parsec3... again

[Evan Laforge]

>> I think my short term solution is going to be remove -auto-all from
>> attoparsec's cabal---I'm not profiling attoparsec and so I don't want
>> my entire profile output to be internal attoparsec functions.  But
>> presumably the flag was added there for a reason, so maybe there are
>> people who really want that.
>
> Yes - me :-)

Yes, certainly it makes sense for someone profiling the library
itself, or if I thought your library was too slow and wanted to send a
profile in a bug report.  But I don't think it makes so much sense for
plain users, especially when it's applied only to some libraries.

However, this seems to be a fairly common practice... at least parsec3
and text both do this, which is why I initially thought parsec3 was so
much slower than parsec2, and attoparsec-text was doubly slow.

> I might, though, see if there's a way I could enable that flag only for
> myself (in a way that I wouldn't routinely forget).

This sounds like a good idea to me.