Investigate why simplifier ticks become exhausted on old GHCs #51
Description
Compiling text-show on GHC 8.0 and 8.2 has a tendency to exhaust the simplifier ticks. (See 0cba202 and #50 for examples of this.) Rather than blindly increase the simplifier tick limit to work around the issue, we should investigate if there is a more robust fix that can be applied in the code itself. It is likely that text-show's aggressive use of the INLINE pragmas has something to do with it, although it is not yet clear to me which INLINE pragmas would be best to remove.