RE: [commit: ghc] master: Bump haddock.base max_bytes_used (8df7fea)

2014-08-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Ha. max_bytes_used is vulnerable to exactly when gc strikes, so I'm disinclined to get stressed about this. I was mis-reading it as bytes-allocated. Interestingly it doesn't happen for me. Simon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of

Re: globalRegMaybe and ARM

2014-08-04 Thread Simon Marlow
Hi Ben, There has been some confusion here because I accidentally committed a change to this file that then got reverted. The original fix was #9055, making it so that on platforms with no registers, globalRegMaybe would return Nothing (as it should). This wasn't necessary until recently

RE: [commit: ghc] master: Bump haddock.base max_bytes_used (8df7fea)

2014-08-04 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Yes, on my box, this test is now failing (because the stat is too good): Expectedhaddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 127954488 +/-10% Lower bound haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 115159039 Upper bound haddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 140749937 Actual

Re: [commit: ghc] master: Bump haddock.base max_bytes_used (8df7fea)

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
This is also happening on Phabricator, which is causing the buildbot to choke: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D112#4 On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:02 AM, Edward Z. Yang ezy...@mit.edu wrote: Yes, on my box, this test is now failing (because the stat is too good): Expected

RE: I'm going to disable DPH until someone starts maintaining it

2014-08-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Adding Ben, Roman, Gabi SImon | -Original Message- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-boun...@haskell.org] On Behalf Of | Austin Seipp | Sent: 04 August 2014 12:48 | To: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Cc: Manuel Chakravarty; Geoffrey Mainland | Subject: I'm going to disable DPH until someone

Re: [commit: ghc] master: Bump haddock.base max_bytes_used (8df7fea)

2014-08-04 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Montag, den 04.08.2014, 13:08 +0200 schrieb Joachim Breitner: Am Montag, den 04.08.2014, 12:02 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang: Yes, on my box, this test is now failing (because the stat is too good): Expectedhaddock.base(normal) max_bytes_used: 127954488 +/-10% Lower

Re: I'm going to disable DPH until someone starts maintaining it

2014-08-04 Thread Ben Lippmeier
On 4 Aug 2014, at 21:47 , Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: Why? Because I'm afraid I just don't have any more patience for DPH, I'm tired of fixing it, and it takes up a lot of extra time to build, and time to maintain. I'm not going to argue against cutting it lose. So - why are

Re: Release building for Windows

2014-08-04 Thread Mikhail Glushenkov
Hi, On 4 August 2014 14:52, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: Do you have an URL for this FAQ? I can't find it, and I can't remember what's wrong with --enable-split-objs. :-( What is the impact for people using large libraries (like OpenGL/OpenGLRaw/...) where you often use only a small

Re: [commit: ghc] master: Bump haddock.base max_bytes_used (8df7fea)

2014-08-04 Thread Edward Z . Yang
Yes, plain validate. Cheers, Edward Excerpts from Joachim Breitner's message of 2014-08-04 12:08:31 +0100: Hi, Am Montag, den 04.08.2014, 12:02 +0100 schrieb Edward Z.Yang: Yes, on my box, this test is now failing (because the stat is too good): Expectedhaddock.base(normal)

Re: Release building for Windows

2014-08-04 Thread Sven Panne
2014-08-04 14:59 GMT+02:00 Mikhail Glushenkov the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GHC-7.8-FAQ Hmmm, this isn't very specific, it just says that there are probably bugs, but that's true for almost all code. :-) Are there any concrete issues with

Re: I'm going to disable DPH until someone starts maintaining it

2014-08-04 Thread Geoffrey Mainland
I have patches for DPH that let it work with vector 0.11 as of a few months ago. I would be happy to submit them via phabricator if that is agreeable (we have to coordinate with the import of vector 0.11 though...I can instead leave them in a wip branch for Austin to merge as he sees fit). I am

Re: Release building for Windows

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
Mark, Randy, Sorry for the delayed reply! On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Mark Lentczner mark.lentcz...@gmail.com wrote: Randy Polen, undertook porting the new build of Haskell Platform to Windows. He did a great job... but as this is first time stepping up to such a big release, he has some

Re: Release building for Windows

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Sven Panne svenpa...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-08-04 14:59 GMT+02:00 Mikhail Glushenkov the.dead.shall.r...@gmail.com: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/GHC-7.8-FAQ Hmmm, this isn't very specific, it just says that there are probably bugs, but that's true for

Re: I'm going to disable DPH until someone starts maintaining it

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Ben Lippmeier b...@ouroborus.net wrote: On 4 Aug 2014, at 21:47 , Austin Seipp aus...@well-typed.com wrote: Why? Because I'm afraid I just don't have any more patience for DPH, I'm tired of fixing it, and it takes up a lot of extra time to build, and time to

Re: I'm going to disable DPH until someone starts maintaining it

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 8:49 AM, Geoffrey Mainland mainl...@apeiron.net wrote: I have patches for DPH that let it work with vector 0.11 as of a few months ago. I would be happy to submit them via phabricator if that is agreeable (we have to coordinate with the import of vector 0.11 though...I

RE: Question about BangPatterns semantics/documentation

2014-08-04 Thread Simon Peyton Jones
Yes, Joachim is dead right. In Haskell (case f x of y - blah) really is equivalent to (let y = f x in blah). Herbert, if you think a reminder of this point, in the documentation or user manual, would be helpful, please suggest what and where. Simon | -Original Message- | From:

Re: [core libraries] Core libraries bug tracker

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Snoyman
On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Simon Peyton Jones simo...@microsoft.com wrote: Edward, and core library colleagues, This came up in our weekly GHC discussion · Does the Core Libraries Committee have a Trac? Surely, surely you should, else you’ll lose track of issues. ·

Status updates

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
Hi *, Here's some weekly status updates! - I'm merging Applicative-Monad today after a few more minor fixes. OMG YES. This only occurred after fighting off some nasty bugs that took quite a while to track down. Unfortunately this ate up most of my time this week. - I redid the Phabricator

Re: Status updates

2014-08-04 Thread Austin Seipp
Thanks, Bryan! On a related note, and to drum up some excitement - we have another new committer (two in one day): Sergei Trofimovich :] On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: Hey Austin – It's very helpful and informative to know what you're up to.