Tobias Dammers authored Oct 25, 2017 and Ben Gamari committed Oct 25, 2017

Improves compiler performance of deriving Read instances, as suggested
in the issue.

Additionally, we introduce `readSymField`, a companion to `readField`
that parses symbol-type fields (where the field name is a symbol, e.g.
`(#)`, rather than an alphanumeric identifier. The decision between
these two functions is made a compile time, because we already know
which one we need based on the field name.

Reviewers: austin, hvr, bgamari, RyanGlScott

Reviewed By: bgamari

Subscribers: RyanGlScott, rwbarton, thomie

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4108