Remove debug warning, and explain why

[ghc-hetmet.git] / compiler / stranal / WorkWrap.lhs

diff --git a/compiler/stranal/WorkWrap.lhs b/compiler/stranal/WorkWrap.lhs
index fbc0bf7..3667da8 100644 (file)
--- a/compiler/stranal/WorkWrap.lhs
+++ b/compiler/stranal/WorkWrap.lhs
@@ -376,17 +376,7 @@ worthSplittingFun ds res
   = any worth_it ds || returnsCPR res
        -- worthSplitting returns False for an empty list of demands,
        -- and hence do_strict_ww is False if arity is zero and there is no CPR
-
-       -- We used not to split if the result is bottom.
-       -- [Justification:  there's no efficiency to be gained.]
-       -- But it's sometimes bad not to make a wrapper.  Consider
-       --      fw = \x# -> let x = I# x# in case e of
-       --                                      p1 -> error_fn x
-       --                                      p2 -> error_fn x
-       --                                      p3 -> the real stuff
-       -- The re-boxing code won't go away unless error_fn gets a wrapper too.
-       -- [We don't do reboxing now, but in general it's better to pass 
-       --  an unboxed thing to f, and have it reboxed in the error cases....]
+  -- See Note [Worker-wrapper for bottoming functions]
   where
     worth_it Abs             = True    -- Absent arg
     worth_it (Eval (Prod ds)) = True   -- Product arg to evaluate
@@ -403,6 +393,19 @@ worthSplittingThunk maybe_dmd res
     worth_it other                  = False
 \end{code}
 
+Note [Worker-wrapper for bottoming functions]
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+We used not to split if the result is bottom.
+[Justification:  there's no efficiency to be gained.]
+
+But it's sometimes bad not to make a wrapper.  Consider
+       fw = \x# -> let x = I# x# in case e of
+                                       p1 -> error_fn x
+                                       p2 -> error_fn x
+                                       p3 -> the real stuff
+The re-boxing code won't go away unless error_fn gets a wrapper too.
+[We don't do reboxing now, but in general it's better to pass an
+unboxed thing to f, and have it reboxed in the error cases....]
 
 
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