#5272: Performance regression
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Reporter: augustss | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Compiler | Version: 7.0.4
Resolution: fixed | Keywords:
Testcase: | Blockedby:
Difficulty: | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Blocking: | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple
Failure: None/Unknown |
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Comment(by augustss):
First, I don't really mind if ghc is not backwards compatible.
A compiler has to move forwards and can't support old things forever.
I just want to point out that every new ghc release is a pain for people
with a large code base.
Here are the things that caused pains in porting:
* haskell98 no longer supported
* change of type names in Typeable (that took quite a while to debug)
* Prelude.catch deprecated (we compile with -Werror)
* network package didn't build using Setup.hs (as usual)
* glib package didn't build for reasons I never figured out
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5272#comment:7>
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