Hi Burak.
You seem to assume that old strategies use a different GC policy than
new strategies. My understanding is that this is not true. The WEAK
policy is used in general now. So old strategies shouldn't be used
with more recent GHCs, or you'll lose parallelism.
Cheers,
Andres
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Hi,
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Evan Laforge wrote:
>> I'm also interested in a "build server" mode for ghc. I have written a
>> parallel wrapper for 'ghc --make' [1], but the speed gains are not as
>> impressive [2] as I hoped because of the duplicated work.
>
> Was the duplicated work rere
> One immediate problem I see with this is linking - 'ghc --make
> Main.hs' is able to figure out what packages a program depends on,
> while 'ghc Main.o ... -o Main' requires the user to specify them
> manually with -package. So you'll either need to pass this information
> back to the parent proc
Excerpts from Ryan Newton's message of Tue Jan 24 10:25:37 -0500 2012:
> This is related but somewhat tangential --
>
> *Why isn't there a tryReadChan?* It looks like it would be implementable
> with the current Chan representation in terms of tryTakeMVar. Especially
> since isEmptyChan is dep
This is related but somewhat tangential --
*Why isn't there a tryReadChan?* It looks like it would be implementable
with the current Chan representation in terms of tryTakeMVar. Especially
since isEmptyChan is deprecated this would be nice to have.
Because of missing tryReadChan there is no n
Can anyone help Burak?
Simon
-Original Message-
From: burak ekici [mailto:ekcbu...@hotmail.com]
Sent: 24 January 2012 08:12
To: Simon Peyton-Jones
Subject: A Garbage Collection Question
Dear Dr. Jones,
this time I am disturbing you to ask a question about how
garbage collection is bein
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Evan Laforge wrote:
> So ghc --make provides two things: a dependency chaser and a way to
> keep the compiler resident as it compiles new files. Since the
> dependency chaser will never be as powerful as a real build system, it
> occurs to me that the only re
> From: Heka Treep
> Subject: Re: Is it true that an exception is always terminates the
> thread?
> To: "Edward Z. Yang"
> Cc: glasgow-haskell-users
> Message-ID:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> 2012/1/23, Edward Z. Yang :
>> Excerpts from Heka Treep's message
Hi,
On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:53 AM, Evan Laforge wrote:
> [...]
>
> So ghc --make provides two things: a dependency chaser and a way to
> keep the compiler resident as it compiles new files. Since the
> dependency chaser will never be as powerful as a real build system, it
> occurs to me that t
