Re: parallel garbage collection performance

2012-06-27 Thread Simon Marlow
On 26/06/2012 00:42, Ryan Newton wrote: However, the parallel GC will be a problem if one or more of your cores is being used by other process(es) on the machine. In that case, the GC synchronisation will stall and performance will go down the drain. You can often see this on a

Compiling ghcjs

2012-06-27 Thread Nathan Hüsken
Hi, I hope this is the correct list to ask this question. I am trying to compile the ghcjs compiler. I am on ubuntu 12.04 and have ghc-7.4.1 installed (via apt-get). I am following the instruction I found here: https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs The first trouble comes with git pull ghcjs. I get:

Re: Fwd: ghc-7.6 branch

2012-06-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:30:02PM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: I just want to see things changed. :) We're happy to try to improve things, but I'm not sure what change you want exactly. We could change the default for GHC stable branches to: * Use the tag for the latest release, unless that

Re: Fwd: ghc-7.6 branch

2012-06-27 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 3:20 AM, Paolo Capriotti p.caprio...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Johan Tibell johan.tib...@gmail.com wrote: * Some libraries will need to have version bumps, which means that other  libraries will need to loosen their dependencies, which means

Re: Fwd: ghc-7.6 branch

2012-06-27 Thread Johan Tibell
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:30:02PM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: I just want to see things changed. :) We're happy to try to improve things, but I'm not sure what change you want exactly. I want GHC to stop releasing other

Re: Fwd: ghc-7.6 branch

2012-06-27 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:42:24AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:30:02PM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: I just want to see things changed. :) We're happy to try to improve things, but I'm not sure

Re: Fwd: ghc-7.6 branch

2012-06-27 Thread Johan Tibell
Hi, On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Ian Lynagh ig...@earth.li wrote: If a GHC release needs an unreleased change in one of the libraries, and the maintainer (for whatever reason) is not responding to e-mails, should the GHC release be held up indefinitely? Again, note that GHC is no

Re: Fwd: ghc-7.6 branch

2012-06-27 Thread Gershom Bazerman
On 6/27/12 6:06 PM, Johan Tibell wrote: This is not a theoretical issue. We have had all of the following problems happen in the past due to the current process: * patches never making it upstream * releases of libraries without knowledge of the maintainer (who finds out by finding a new