RE: Effect of large binaries on garbage collection

2003-03-11 Thread Kevin Millikin
On Tuesday, March 11, 2003 6:49 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is needed is a FFI tutorial (in addition to the spec); > similar to how we have the Gentle Introduction to complement > the Report. I agree completely. I've put off temporarily writing a tutorial

Re: Effect of large binaries on garbage collection

2003-03-11 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
"Simon Peyton-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > | In the current CVS GHC, undoubtedly the right thing to use is > | Foreign.mallocForeignPtr. Internally these are implemented as > | MutableByteArray#, so you get fast allocation and GC, but from the > | programmer's point of view it's a normal F

Re: 5.04.2 RPM Dependencies

2003-03-11 Thread Dominic Steinitz
I tried the RPM for 7.2 and it seemed to work with --force and --nodeps (it asked for libreadline.so.4 which was already there). Dominic Steinitz - Original Message - From: "Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jon Fairbairn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dominic Steinitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc

RE: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 5.04.3 released

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Marlow
> Actually, I find it difficult to extract the sometimes drastic > differences between releases from that document (just one example: > does this release include last week's bugfixes in the Network > module?). How do I find out about the various bugfixes between > releases, to decide whether or no

fun with sockets (ghc-5.04.1)

2003-03-11 Thread Peter Thiemann
Hi, I'm running into a problem using server code (running on a UNIX domain socket) that I basically snatched from Simon Marlow's web server: ++ mainLoop sock defUser getMs = do putStrLn "Accepting connections..." installHan

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 5.04.3 released

2003-03-11 Thread C.Reinke
>== > The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04.3 >== > > We are pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of the Glasgow > Haskell Compiler (GHC

ANNOUNCE: GHC vesrion 5.04.3 released

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Marlow
== The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 5.04.3 == We are pleased to announce a new patchlevel release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC), version 5

RE: 5.04.2 RPM Dependencies

2003-03-11 Thread Simon Marlow
> On 2003-03-10 at 20:57GMT "Dominic Steinitz" wrote: > > Can anyone help? I downloaded the latest rpm for ghc but > got the following > > errors on installation: > > > > error: failed dependencies: > > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by ghc-5.04.2-1 > > libreadline.so.4 is needed by ghc-5.0

Re: 5.04.2 RPM Dependencies

2003-03-11 Thread Jon Fairbairn
On 2003-03-10 at 20:57GMT "Dominic Steinitz" wrote: > Can anyone help? I downloaded the latest rpm for ghc but got the following > errors on installation: > > error: failed dependencies: > libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3) is needed by ghc-5.04.2-1 > libreadline.so.4 is needed by ghc-5.04.2-1 > > I gues