On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Henning Thielemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have upgraded to Cabal 1.2 while still using GHC-6.4.1. In the Haskore > project there is the module NewResolutions.lhs which let GHC run into > extensive swapping (certainly due to excessive memory consumption) on > compilation when compiled with optimization. One can say, it cannot be > compiled this way. This is clearly a compiler bug, but upgrading the > compiler is not an option here. Thus I used unoptimized compilation so > far. Now, Cabal 1.2 seems to have optimization set by default. While it > was easy to add optimization by using 'GHC-Options' field it is not > obvious how to override Cabal defaults. > I don't think it was a good idea to switch on optimization silently from > one Cabal version to another one. It would have been better to let people > configure Cabal globally and manually to use optimization.
But we definitely want optimization on by default to prevent a poor user experience, right? -- Johan _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
