Re: #16364: Derived Enum for small number of constructors seems suboptimal

#16364: Derived Enum for small number of constructors seems suboptimal
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        Reporter:  Fuuzetsu          |                Owner:  (none)
            Type:  bug               |               Status:  new
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       Component:  Compiler          |              Version:  8.6.3
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Comment (by simonpj):

 I agree that a straight pattern-match on the tag might be better, at least
 for small enumerations.

 Another interesting question is this: what is the behaviour of the
 primitive operation `tagToEnum#` when given an out-of-range tag?  Does it
 crash somehow, return a bogus answer, or call `error`?   It think it might
 be the former, relying on the caller to check for out-of-range cases, like
 array indexing.  We should document this properly.

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Ticket URL: <http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16364#comment:1>