Thread behavior in 7.8.3

2014-10-28 Thread Michael Jones
I have a general question about thread behavior in 7.8.3 vs 7.6.X I moved from 7.6 to 7.8 and my application behaves very differently. I have three threads, an application thread that plots data with wxhaskell or sends it over a network (depends on settings), a thread doing usb bulk writes, and

Re: Recursion on TypeNats

2014-10-28 Thread Iavor Diatchki
Hello, actually type-level integers are easier to work with than type-level naturals (e.g., one can cancel things by subtracting at will). I agree that ideally we want to have both integers and naturals (probably as separate kinds). I just don't know what notation to use to distinguish the two.

Re: GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty

2014-10-28 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Yitzchak Gale's message of 2014-10-28 13:58:08 -0700: > How about this: Currently, every GHC source distribution > requires no later than its own version of GHC for bootstrapping. > Going backwards, that chops up the sequence of GHC versions > into tiny incompatible pieces - there is

Re: GHC 7.4.2 on Ubuntu Trusty

2014-10-28 Thread Yitzchak Gale
I wrote: >> This thread makes it clear what a mess >> we have inherited from the days when GHC was primarily a >> research compiler. Let's face it - GHC is now also a serious >> production compiler, and this urgently needs to be cleaned up. hvr wrote: > Are you referring to the GMP dependency or s