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> Anecdotally I can say that trying to enable `-XStrict` in production caused performance issues that prevented us from trialing it further.

hah this is in many ways indirect proof that laziness-by-default is improving performance. It may even be that a rote translation to strict (which `-XStrict` does) is causing _time_ leaks, which are actually pervasive in production strict-by-default code.



> hah this is in many ways indirect proof that laziness-by-default is improving performance.

I believe this is the case, but the times it saves you are invisble.

The occurences where it bites you though are very visible and made out to be a much bigger deal than they usually are.




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