Re: Parallel --make (GHC build times on newer MacBook Pros?)

2011-08-27 Thread Johan Tibell
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:25 AM, Brandon Moore brandon_m_mo...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm confused by this as well. Parallelizing --make was one of the first case studies in the smp runtime paper, section 7 in Haskell on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor There's also a trac ticket

Re: Parallel --make (GHC build times on newer MacBook Pros?)

2011-08-27 Thread Evan Laforge
From what I remember someone tried to parallelize GHC but it turned out to me tricky in practice. At the moment very trying to parallelize Cabal which would allow us to build packages/modules in parallel using ghc -c and let Cabal handle dependency management (including preprocessing of .hsc

Re: Bug#639015: [Pkg-haskell-maintainers] libffi soname change upcoming

2011-08-27 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi Simon, Am Donnerstag, den 25.08.2011, 10:58 +0100 schrieb Simon Marlow: On 24/08/2011 13:12, Joachim Breitner wrote: Am Mittwoch, den 24.08.2011, 12:44 +0200 schrieb Matthias Klose: The question that has to be answered first is: Assume the libraries do not depend on libffi themselves,

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.2.1

2011-08-27 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Dienstag, den 09.08.2011, 21:01 +0100 schrieb Ian Lynagh: = The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.2.1 = while better than rc1, there are

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.2.1

2011-08-27 Thread Karel Gardas
Hi, sorry for causing this bug. Simon Marlow fixed this in: commit f0191c559d683b5bac12243c0db3b780b684799e Author: Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com Date: Wed Aug 10 10:02:55 2011 +0100 default to using @note for saving the linker opts (someone mentioned that it wasn't working on