[Haskell-cafe] Inlinable (>>>)

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Saurabh Nanda <saurabhnanda at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Why can't GHC automatically consider *every* function as INLINABLE? Let
> the GHC heuristics decide what is worthy of being inlined. What's the
> downside?


At a guess, performance of both .hi file handling and analysis for
inlining. Don't people already gripe about how "slow" ghc is?

Also, inlining the wrong thing can completely derail other optimizations
(e.g. fusion).

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