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

2011-09-01 Thread Evan Laforge
Yes, the plan was to eventually have a parallel --make mode. If that's the goal, wouldn't it be easier to start many ghcs? ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: Panic when using syb with GHC API

2011-09-01 Thread Simon Hengel
Hi Pedro, If it seems like this avoids the problem, I'd be happy to release a new version of SYB containing these type-guided traversals. Do you think it would be a good idea to make the interfaces of Data.Generics.GPS and Data.Generics more similar? One thing I have noted is, that

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

2011-09-01 Thread Thomas Schilling
On 1 September 2011 08:44, Evan Laforge qdun...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, the plan was to eventually have a parallel --make mode. If that's the goal, wouldn't it be easier to start many ghcs? Yes. With Scion I'm in the process of moving away from using GHC's compilation manager (i.e., --make)

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

2011-09-01 Thread Simon Marlow
On 01/09/2011 08:44, Evan Laforge wrote: Yes, the plan was to eventually have a parallel --make mode. If that's the goal, wouldn't it be easier to start many ghcs? It's an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. There would have to be an atomic file system operation to commit a compiled

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

2011-09-01 Thread Edward Kmett
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:49 AM, Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/09/2011 08:44, Evan Laforge wrote: Yes, the plan was to eventually have a parallel --make mode. If that's the goal, wouldn't it be easier to start many ghcs? It's an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of.

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

2011-09-01 Thread Evan Laforge
It's an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of.  There would have to be an atomic file system operation to commit a compiled module - getting that right could be a bit tricky (compilation isn't deterministic, so the commit has to be atomic). I suppose you could just rename it into place

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.2.1

2011-09-01 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Jens Petersen j...@community.haskell.orgwrote: Since the test rpms are now gone from Koji and I don't think I will start building 7.2 properly for Fedora until after ICFP Just in case you didn't know, 7.4 is due to come out around the time of ICFP. If you