Simon Peyton Jones authored Nov 22, 2013 and Joachim Breitner committed Dec 12, 2013

Joachim and I are committing this onto a branch so that we can share it,
but we expect to do a bit more work before merging it onto head.

Nofib staus:
  - Most programs, no change
  - A few improve
  - A couple get worse (cacheprof, tak, rfib)
Investigating the "get worse" set is what's holding up putting this
on head.

The major issue is this.  Consider

    map (f g) ys

where f's demand signature looks like

   f :: <L,C1(C1(U))> -> <L,U> -> .

So 'f' is not saturated.  What demand do we place on g?
Answer
        C(C1(U))
That is, the inner C1 should stay, even though f is not saturated.

I found that this made a significant difference in the demand signatures
inferred in GHC.IO, which uses lots of higher-order exception handlers.

I also had to add used-once demand signatures for some of the
'catch' primops, so that we know their handlers are only called once.