any such functions.
I made this change when I observed a big function at the end of
-compilation with a useful strictness signature but no w-w. When
-I measured it on nofib, it didn't make much difference; just a few
-percent improved allocation on one benchmark (bspt/Euclid.space).
-But nothing got worse.
+compilation with a useful strictness signature but no w-w. (It was
+small during demand analysis, we refrained from w/w, and then got big
+when something was inlined in its rhs.) When I measured it on nofib,
+it didn't make much difference; just a few percent improved allocation
+on one benchmark (bspt/Euclid.space). But nothing got worse.
+
+There is an infelicity though. We may get something like
+ f = g val
+==>
+ g x = case gw x of r -> I# r
+
+ f {- InlineStable, Template = g val -}
+ f = case gw x of r -> I# r
+
+The code for f duplicates that for g, without any real benefit. It
+won't really be executed, because calls to f will go via the inlining.
Note [Wrapper activation]
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-- in case x of
-- I# y -> let x = I# y in x }
-- See comments above. Is it not beautifully short?
+-- Moreover, it works just as well when there are
+-- several binders, and if the binders are lifted
+-- E.g. x = e
+-- --> x = let x = e in
+-- case x of (a,b) -> let x = (a,b) in x
splitThunk :: Var -> Expr Var -> UniqSM [(Var, Expr Var)]
splitThunk fn_id rhs = do