haskell-beam/beam

Document the existence and purpose of `beam-large-records`

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#825 opened on Jul 20, 2026

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Description

beam-large-records exists to speed up compilation of beam schemas with lots of fields. We should mention its existence and purpose in the documentation!

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Research direction
Examine the current beam documentation to find where to add a note about beam large records package, then propose a change that explains its existence and purpose.
Tech stack
haskell
Domain
backend
Issue type
Documentation
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2
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1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
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Haskellbeam
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80