HEAD vs Hackage status report

I spent a little time the other day building all of Hackage with GHC HEAD. Here's a quick writeup of what I found. Total packages: 5564 Succeeded with 7.6.3: 3234 Succeeded with HEAD: 2061 Succeeded with 7.6.3 *but failed with HEAD: 1186* (A few dozen packages built with HEAD, but not with 7.6.3,

Re: [commit: ghc] master: Fix AMP warnings for explicit Prelude imports (#8004) (b9127f4)

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 9:10 PM, wrote: > +isPrelude :: ImportDecl Name -> Bool > +isPrelude = (== "Prelude") . moduleNameString . unLoc . ideclName Can't you just do unLoc (ideclName imp) == pRELUDE_NAME here? ___ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-d

Re: [GHC] #8173: GHC uses nub

On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 2:56 PM, GHC wrote: > According to the results, sadly the 5% performance gain in compile time > was complete bogus. Sorry. =( > Does anyone have any insight into why? How can a future benchmark avoid such bogusity? The only -- I might add, implicit -- rec is to run thi