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author | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2015-08-26 18:24:34 +0200 |
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committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2015-10-29 16:14:51 +0100 |
commit | bef2f03e4d56d88a7e9752a7afd6a0a35616da6c (patch) | |
tree | 9ae33978cf43d8268a6c5afa42e7a6c8a7e227a1 /testsuite/tests/stranal/should_compile | |
parent | 40e6214c06bc197dbdfcf9f7345dad1ad271922b (diff) | |
download | haskell-bef2f03e4d56d88a7e9752a7afd6a0a35616da6c.tar.gz |
Generate Typeable info at definition sites
This patch implements the idea floated in Trac #9858, namely that we
should generate type-representation information at the data type
declaration site, rather than when solving a Typeable constraint.
However, this turned out quite a bit harder than I expected. I still
think it's the right thing to do, and it's done now, but it was quite
a struggle.
See particularly
* Note [Grand plan for Typeable] in TcTypeable (which is a new module)
* Note [The overall promotion story] in DataCon (clarifies existing stuff)
The most painful bit was that to generate Typeable instances (ie
TyConRepName bindings) for every TyCon is tricky for types in ghc-prim
etc:
* We need to have enough data types around to *define* a TyCon
* Many of these types are wired-in
Also, to minimise the code generated for each data type, I wanted to
generate pure data, not CAFs with unpackCString# stuff floating about.
Performance
~~~~~~~~~~~
Three perf/compiler tests start to allocate quite a bit more. This isn't
surprising, because they all allocate zillions of data types, with
practically no other code, esp. T1969
* T3294: GHC allocates 110% more (filed #11030 to track this)
* T1969: GHC allocates 30% more
* T4801: GHC allocates 14% more
* T5321FD: GHC allocates 13% more
* T783: GHC allocates 12% more
* T9675: GHC allocates 12% more
* T5642: GHC allocates 10% more
* T9961: GHC allocates 6% more
* T9203: Program allocates 54% less
I'm treating this as acceptable. The payoff comes in Typeable-heavy
code.
Remaining to do
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* I think that "TyCon" and "Module" are over-generic names to use for
the runtime type representations used in GHC.Typeable. Better might be
"TrTyCon" and "TrModule". But I have not yet done this
* Add more info the the "TyCon" e.g. source location where it was
defined
* Use the new "Module" type to help with Trac Trac #10068
* It would be possible to generate TyConRepName (ie Typeable
instances) selectively rather than all the time. We'd need to persist
the information in interface files. Lacking a motivating reason I have
not done this, but it would not be difficult.
Refactoring
~~~~~~~~~~~
As is so often the case, I ended up refactoring more than I intended.
In particular
* In TyCon, a type *family* (whether type or data) is repesented by a
FamilyTyCon
* a algebraic data type (including data/newtype instances) is
represented by AlgTyCon This wasn't true before; a data family
was represented as an AlgTyCon. There are some corresponding
changes in IfaceSyn.
* Also get rid of the (unhelpfully named) tyConParent.
* In TyCon define 'Promoted', isomorphic to Maybe, used when things are
optionally promoted; and use it elsewhere in GHC.
* Cleanup handling of knownKeyNames
* Each TyCon, including promoted TyCons, contains its TyConRepName, if
it has one. This is, in effect, the name of its Typeable instance.
Requires update of the haddock submodule.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D757
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diff --git a/testsuite/tests/stranal/should_compile/T10694.stdout b/testsuite/tests/stranal/should_compile/T10694.stdout index 2797ce7407..64d5f7a1aa 100644 --- a/testsuite/tests/stranal/should_compile/T10694.stdout +++ b/testsuite/tests/stranal/should_compile/T10694.stdout @@ -1,2 +1,5 @@ + Str=DmdType m1, + Str=DmdType m1, + Str=DmdType m, [GblId, Arity=2, Str=DmdType <L,U(U)><L,U(U)>m] Str=DmdType <L,U(U)><L,U(U)>, |