Windows building instructions

2009-03-10 Thread Simon Marlow
I've made a start on sanitising the Windows building instructions, and generally reoganising the Windows-related stuff in the wiki. Basicalliy my plan is to: - Simplify the instructions. In lots of places we have stuff like if you get the following bizarre error message ... then do this

Re: Windows building instructions

2009-03-10 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Simon, I got a brand new Vista machine yesterday (and a brand new monitor this morning), running Vista. I'll try out these instructions as soon as its all plugged together. When I had my last stab at compiling GHC I ended up creating a little script to automate some of the common bits and

RE: Loop unrolling + fusion ?

2009-03-10 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| What I don't understand yet is the routemap for replacing -fvia-C Good points, Claus. I think the story is as follows: * -fvia-C does not produce much better code, except in exceptionally tight loops, because GHC gives gcc very little scope for optimisation. Simon mentioned something like

Re: Reliability of trace?

2009-03-10 Thread Isaac Dupree
Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm trying to use Debug.Trace to debug some tree-walking that I've written. It seems to me that I am missing some traces on intermediate function calls. I guess that ghc is re-arranging the code in such a way that some of these intermediate calls disappear. Anyway of

Re: Reliability of trace?

2009-03-10 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Isaac == Isaac Dupree m...@isaac.cedarswampstudios.org writes: Isaac Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm trying to use Debug.Trace to debug some tree-walking that I've written. It seems to me that I am missing some traces on intermediate function calls. I guess that ghc is