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    Make SpecConstr more aggressive, by neglecting reboxing · d8a34b36
    Simon Peyton Jones authored
    SpecConstr was conservative about avoiding reboxing (see Note [Reboxing])
    but that meant it lost useful opportunities.  This patch makes it much
    more aggressive, but at the risk of doing some reboxing.
    
    Actually, the strictness analyser has the same property (it's possible
    for it to generate reboxing code, and thus increase allocation), but we
    don't worry so much about that.  Maybe we should.
    
    Ideally, one would do some more sophisticated analysis that spotted
    the reboxing cases without excluding the useful ones.  
    
    But meanwhile, let's try this. 
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