Re: length of module name affecting performance??

2009-02-09 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2008 12:54 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: What a great bug -- I would never have predicted it, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense. Record selectors had better get fixed. Can I read somewhere about what caused this bug? What is its trac URL? Best wishes, Wolfgang

Re: :info features

2009-02-09 Thread Remi Turk
On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 12:39:03AM -0500, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On 2009 Feb 5, at 5:49, Remi Turk wrote: SPJ agreed with the idea itself, but suggested an alternative set of commands: :info Show-- See class definition only :instances Show -- See instances of Show

Re: length of module name affecting performance??

2009-02-09 Thread Daniel GorĂ­n
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2884 On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:53 AM, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: Am Montag, 29. Dezember 2008 12:54 schrieb Simon Peyton-Jones: What a great bug -- I would never have predicted it, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense. Record selectors had better get

Re: my experience with ghci debugger extensions

2009-02-09 Thread Peter Hercek
Hi Simon, Simon Marlow wrote: If you felt like working on this yourself, possibly with Pepe, then we'd be happy to support in any way we can. Thanks. It may happen though it is not probable. I do not know the code so anything non-trivial is a significant effort and my free weekends and

Re: my experience with ghci debugger extensions

2009-02-09 Thread pepe
Hi, Simon Marlow wrote: If you felt like working on this yourself, possibly with Pepe, then we'd be happy to support in any way we can. Thanks. It may happen though it is not probable. I do not know the code so anything non-trivial is a significant effort and my free weekends and

How bad is the PowerPC backend?

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Chevalier
Hello, For obscure reasons, I'm running some benchmarks both on an x86 machine (2.20 Ghz, 2 GB of RAM, Linux 2.6.22-15) and on a PowerPC Mac (1 Ghz, 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS 10.5). I noticed that even some pretty simple programs run much slower on the Mac than on the PC. For example, the following

Re: How bad is the PowerPC backend?

2009-02-09 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Tim, Monday, February 9, 2009, 11:16:22 PM, you wrote: So is the PPC backend really this bad, or should I be looking for something weird with the hardware or configuration on the Mac? check GC times too. one possibility is that GC takes much more time due to smaller L2 cache -- Best

Re: How bad is the PowerPC backend?

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 2/9/09, Bulat Ziganshin bulat.zigans...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Tim, Monday, February 9, 2009, 11:16:22 PM, you wrote: So is the PPC backend really this bad, or should I be looking for something weird with the hardware or configuration on the Mac? check GC times too. one

Re: How bad is the PowerPC backend?

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Chevalier
On 2/9/09, David Brown hask...@davidb.org wrote: Which CPU is the x86? The modern x86 CPUs (such as Core2) will be significantly faster than the PowerPC, even at comparable clock rates. Have you just compared even C code tests? I think that goes a long way towards explaining it... a