Re: GHC-2.08 on alpha, for a change...

1997-11-05 Thread Johannes Waldmann
Haven't properly investigated this myself yet, but just in case this looks familiar to anyone, I get the following, trying to build 2.08 on an alpha, with ghc-0.29. Unix assembler: gcc -o absCSyn/PprAbsC.o -c /usr/tmp/ghc10102.s as1: Internal: /usr/tmp/ghc10102.s, line 32:

Re: evil laziness in iteration

1997-11-05 Thread Simon L Peyton Jones
Sergey Thanks for your various messages. I've explained your results below. You are right to say that it's hard to be sure what optimisations will happen when; arguably that's a bad shortcoming of functional programming (especially the lazy sort). Profiling tools help a bit. I think, though,