Re[2]: The HP and PackedString (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Removing mtl from the Haskell Platform)

2009-05-13 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Duncan,

Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:33:13 PM, you wrote:

> I think it should remain deprecated and we should work on the
> replacement so that TH can switch its dependency.

TH isn't high-performance package and i think that it should just
switch to use of String


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Re[2]: The HP and PackedString (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Removing mtl from the Haskell Platform)

2009-05-13 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Robin,

Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:45:57 PM, you wrote:

>> TH isn't high-performance package and i think that it should just
>> switch to use of String

> I don't agree. TH can sometimes slow down a build considerably. I don't
> want to see it getting even slower.

i think GHC compile times is the reason rather than execution of TH scripts

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Re: Re[2]: The HP and PackedString (was: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Removing mtl from the Haskell Platform)

2009-05-13 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 15:37 +0400, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Duncan,
> 
> Wednesday, May 13, 2009, 3:33:13 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > I think it should remain deprecated and we should work on the
> > replacement so that TH can switch its dependency.
> 
> TH isn't high-performance package and i think that it should just
> switch to use of String

That's a reasonable proposal for the next major release of the platform.
Please do propose it on the libraries list and see if we can get a
consensus.

Duncan

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