Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Marlow
On 06/09/2012 21:10, Christian Hoener zu Siederdissen wrote: Hi Ian, thanks for the info about 7.8. Just to be clear, the new codegen apparently saved my runtimes for the presentation on tuesday. \My\ new code was slower than my old code. The new code generator fixed that, giving me equal

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

2012-09-07 Thread Christian Höner zu Siederdissen
Hi Simon, Yes I am using -fnew-codegen. Using a large set of random input data I get the expected results (comparing to both, a different version in Haskell, and one in C). I'll be monitoring output and will report problems. However not relying on it, except to show that high performance is

Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

2012-09-07 Thread Bas van Dijk
On 6 September 2012 18:05, Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com wrote: The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1. Great! * It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the -fdefer-type-errors flag. In section 7.13.1 it says: ...given the following

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.6.1

2012-09-07 Thread Herbert Valerio Riedel
Ian Lynagh i...@well-typed.com writes: On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 09:42:53AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: 2. Could you please push all the packages that were released in GHC 7.6.1 to Hackage as well? I've now uploaded those that we maintain. ...why has bytestring-0.10.0.0 been held back? (afaics,