Re: Docs for RTS option -I

2023-11-22 Thread Bryan Richter via ghc-devs
I've now drafted some new documentation at https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/11655. Reviews welcome. On Mon, 6 Nov 2023 at 13:13, Bryan Richter wrote: > Thanks! Let's see if I can find the time to make a patch for this. > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 17:17, Teofil Camarasu > wrote

Re: Docs for RTS option -I

2023-11-06 Thread Bryan Richter via ghc-devs
Thanks! Let's see if I can find the time to make a patch for this. On Thu, 2 Nov 2023 at 17:17, Teofil Camarasu wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > Thanks for improving this documentation! I've often found these flags > to be quite confusing. > > > For an interactive application, it is probably a good idea t

Re: Docs for RTS option -I

2023-11-02 Thread Teofil Camarasu
Hi Bryan, Thanks for improving this documentation! I've often found these flags to be quite confusing. > For an interactive application, it is probably a good idea to use the idle > GC, because this will allow finalizers to run and deadlocked threads to be > detected in the idle time when no Ha

Docs for RTS option -I

2023-11-02 Thread Bryan Richter via ghc-devs
The original docs are here: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/runtime_control.html#rts-flag--I%20%E2%9F%A8seconds%E2%9F%A9 They raised more questions than answers for me, so I took a stab at rewriting them, and sprinkled in some questions where I need better understanding.