Re: parallelizing ghc

2012-01-29 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi Simon, I have found that a factor of 2 parallelism is required on Linux to draw with ghc --make. In particular: GHC --make = 7.688 Shake -j1 = 11.828 (of which 11.702 is spent running system commands) Shake full -j4 = 7.414 (of which 12.906 is spent running system commands) This is for a

Re: ANNOUNCE: GHC 7.4.1 Release Candidate 2

2012-01-29 Thread Ian Lynagh
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 05:09:20PM -0600, Austin Seipp wrote: I run XCode 4 (and haven't had the opportunity to upgrade.) Would it be reasonable to make a binary distribution for people like Evan and Me and hopefully have it put on the download page? If someone makes a bindist and/or

7.4.1-candidate-2

2012-01-29 Thread Serge D. Mechveliani
Dear GHC team, I have tested ghc-7.4.0.20120126 on Linux Debian, i-386-like by the following tests. 1. Making it by ghc-7.4.0.20111219. 2. Making it by itself. 3. Making random-1.0.1.1. 4. Making and running the DoCon-2.12 test. 5. Making and running an example under DoCon-2.12 under -prof