Simon Peyton Jones authored Feb 28, 2017 and David Feuer committed Feb 28, 2017

This very small patch switches on sm_inline even in the InitialPhase
(aka "gentle" phase).   There is no reason not to... and the results
are astonishing.

I think the peformance of GHC itself improves by about 5%; and some
programs get much smaller, quicker.  Result: across the board
irmprovements in
compile time performance.  Here are the changes in perf/compiler;
the numbers are decreases in compiler bytes-allocated:

  3%   T5837
  7%   parsing001
  9%   T12234
  35%  T9020
  9%   T3064
  13%  T9961
  20%  T13056
  5%   T9872d
  5%   T9872c
  5%   T9872b
  7%   T9872a
  5%   T783
  35%  T12227
  20%  T1969

Plus in perf/should_run

  5%   lazy-bs-alloc

It wasn't as easy as it sounds: I did a raft of preparatory work in
earlier patches.  But it's great!

Reviewers: austin, bgamari

Subscribers: thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D3203