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Simon Peyton Jones authored
This patch generalises the let-floating transformation in a way suggested by Roman and Manuel when doing closure conversion. There are extensive comments in Note [Floating and type abstraction], which begins thus. Consider this: x = /\a. C e1 e2 We'd like to float this to y1 = /\a. e1 y2 = /\a. e2 x = /\a. C (y1 a) (y2 a) for the usual reasons: we want to inline x rather vigorously. (Further commennts follow in SimplUtils.) The implementation is not hard; indeed it used to be in GHC years ago. I removed it thinking that full laziness would achieve the same effect, but I'm not sure it does; and in any case it seems more direct to do it here. The transformation should not make anything worse, so yell if you see anything unexpected happening.
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