Simon Peyton Jones authored 13 years ago and pcapriotti committed 13 years ago

A long-standing and egregious bug in the worker/wrapper code meant
that some functions with the CPR property weren't getting a CPR
w/w. And that had the effect of making a tail-recursive function not
tail recursive.  As well as increasing allocation.

Fixes Trac #5920, and #5997.

Nofib results (highlights):

        Program           Size    Allocs   Runtime   Elapsed  TotalMem
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
         boyer2          -0.1%    -15.3%      0.01      0.01     +0.0%
        mandel2          -0.0%     -8.1%      0.01      0.01     +0.0%
           para          -0.1%    -11.8%     -7.9%     -7.8%     +0.0%
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Min          -0.1%    -15.3%     -7.9%     -7.8%    -33.3%
            Max          +0.0%     +0.2%     +6.3%     +6.3%     +3.7%
 Geometric Mean          -0.0%     -0.4%     +0.1%     +0.1%     -0.5%

Looks like a clear win.  And I have not even recompiled the libraries, so
it'll probably be a bit better in the ed.

MERGED from commit b8ff4448