Hello Grady, Friday, December 29, 2006, 10:12:12 AM, you wrote:
> not get that in the way I want. I suppose there may have to be some > slowdown -- if the compiler specializes every piece of code for every > instance of a typeclass it might encounter, it could bloat the > executable beyond all reason. I'll have to do some tests to see if I > notice an effect in practice. yes. ghc makes specialization only in cases when you used SPECIALIZE/INLINE pragma and when function is small enough to be inlined. otherwise, each (+) operation will make a function call which is very slow thing in Haskell i propose you to use INLINE pragma: {-# INLINE foo #-} unless your function is recursive. in this case, you should use SPECIALIZE pragma: {-# SPECIALIZE foo :: Double -> Double -> Double #-} -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe