RE: D808 progress report

2015-12-09 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
But if we generate identical Core after desugaring there just aren't any downstream changes. Or are there? | -Original Message- | From: Richard Eisenberg [mailto:e...@cis.upenn.edu] | Sent: 08 December 2015 14:35 | To: Simon Peyton Jones | Cc: Ben Gamari

[ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler version 7.10.3

2015-12-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of GHC 7.10.3: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/ There can be found source tarballs and binary distributions for 64-bit and 32-bit modern Linux (GMP 5.0 or later), CentOS (GMP 4.0), Windows, and 64-bit Mac OS X platforms.

Re: D808 progress report

2015-12-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Richard Eisenberg writes: > I've just updated the nokinds-dev branch with the latest. It should > compile with bootstrapping from 7.8. > > Haddock should also compile, but only after doing this from > utils/haddock: > > > git remote add goldfire

Re: D808 progress report

2015-12-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Now since I have a build I'll be turning my attention to some of the > performance issues. > Here is a list of the major (>10% delta) performance regressions according to my testsuite run roughly in order of severity, mdo003: compile never

Re: D808 progress report

2015-12-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Ben Gamari writes: > >> Now since I have a build I'll be turning my attention to some of the >> performance issues. >> > > Here is a list of the major (>10% delta) performance regressions > according to my testsuite run roughly in

Re: D808 progress report

2015-12-09 Thread Richard Eisenberg
Hi Ben, Great. Thanks. I'll be working this morning on non-performance errors, starting with utter failures (wrong exit codes). I've also added you as a committer on github.com/goldfirere/ghc.git. Feel free to push changes to nokinds-dev -- I'll take a look at them when they come across. I'm

Re: A comment on Introspective-Haskell

2015-12-09 Thread Thomas Bereknyei
This should be possible to start as a custom library. Appropriately shimming the result back into TH. Then with some experience and lessons learned we can investigate replacing TH with this new approach. I ran across many similar issues with TH, haskell-src-exts, haskell-src-meta, etc. Levent:

Re: A comment on Introspective-Haskell

2015-12-09 Thread Levent Erkok
Thomas: I honestly don't see why TH needs to go away. The way I viewed Richard's proposal was a means for me to get my hands on Core-splices inside my regular Haskell code. I think the two can co-exist happily. Perhaps others can opine on why we can't have both, aside from perhaps an argument

Re: [Haskell-cafe] [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler version 7.10.3

2015-12-09 Thread Ben Gamari
Ivan Lazar Miljenovic writes: > On 9 December 2015 at 23:17, Ben Gamari wrote: >> >> >> [1] >> http://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3/docs/html/users_guide//release-7-10-3.html > > The links to Trac issues in that page seem to redirect to the

Re: question about coercions between primitive types in STG level

2015-12-09 Thread Ömer Sinan Ağacan
Thanks for all the answers, Simon, do you remember anything about the ticket about converting between floating point types and integers? I spend quite a bit of time in Trac searching for this but couldn't find it. Before implementing a new primop, MachOp, and code generation functions for that

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Glasgow Haskell Compiler version 7.10.3

2015-12-09 Thread Jens Petersen
On 9 December 2015 at 21:17, Ben Gamari wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of GHC 7.10.3 Awesome, thank you! I have build it for Fedora and RHEL/CentOS in my Fedora Copr repo: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/petersen/ghc-7.10.3 The repos also include