Deepseq proposed patch

[Stephen Tetley]

On 10 June 2010 22:15, Julian Blake Kongslie <jblake at omgwallhack.org> wrote:
[SNIP]
> The point of my email was more that I'm not sure it
> makes sense to have a "NFData" class, where "Data" would appear to suffice
> and be easier for programmers to work with.


Don't Data.Data and traversals through gmapQ etc have a reputation for
being particularly slow? (most newer generics libraries benchmark
against it to show their swiftness).

That seems one good reason against this broad instance.

Best wishes

Stephen