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In the mean this improved runtime by about 0.8%. For details
see ticket :ghc-ticket:`17823`.
+* Pattern-Match Coverage Checking
+
+ - The revamp of the pattern-match coverage checker that started in 8.10 concludes with this release and implements the
+ novel `*Lower Your Guards* <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/uploads/prod/2020/03/lyg.pdf>`_ algorithm.
+ - Compared to 8.10, end users might notice improvements to "long-distance information": :: haskell
+
+ :linenos:
+ f True = 1
+ f x = ... case x of { False -> 2; True -> 3 } ...
+
+ GHC is now able to detect the case alt returning 3 as redundant.
+ - Some more performance improvements in edge cases.
+
Full details
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