Changes to Typeable

Johan Tibell johan.tibell at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 23:05:28 CEST 2012


On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Robin KAY <komadori at gekkou.co.uk> wrote:
> Simon's comment that it "would save tons of lookup in the massive
> Typeable-instance table" seemed to me to imply that there was some kind of
> optimisation you could make if Typeable wasn't really a type-class
> internally anyway.

I would think the opposite is true; GHC is good at optimizing
overloaded functions when the type is known (this is what INLINABLE
does).



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