Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-18 Thread David Matthews
On 17/09/2012 16:22, Ramana Kumar wrote: Building HOL4 with 5.5.0 seems to be very slow, compared to 5.4.1. I don't have numbers yet, just an impression. Any clues why this might be? Are the release notes online? I've updated the release notes which list the changes but I really need to go

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-18 Thread Anthony Fox
Building HOL4 with 5.5.0 seems to be very slow, compared to 5.4.1. I don't have numbers yet, just an impression. Any clues why this might be? Are the release notes online? I encountered poor performance the first time I did a HOL4 build under Poly/ML 5.5, but now I’m almost certain that

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-17 Thread David Matthews
On 17/09/2012 02:32, Michael Norrish wrote: On 17/09/12 00:02, Rob Arthan wrote: Object files now use standard text and data areas when exporting. In particular this means that it is no longer necessary to use --segprot on Mac OS X to avoid a bus error. I have make files that detect Mac OS

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-17 Thread Ramana Kumar
On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 9:16 AM, David Matthews david.matth...@prolingua.co.uk wrote: I have finally released Poly/ML 5.5 on the SourceForge site. I still need to finish the release notes and update the Poly/ML web site. I guess that also means updating the fixes-5.5 branch? I just built

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-17 Thread Ramana Kumar
I cleaned out my build directory and tried again; now I have 5.5.0 as expected. Thanks. (I don't deal with svn commands directly; I maintain https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28880 and the build scripts do the checkout under the hood.) Building HOL4 with 5.5.0 seems to be very slow,

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-16 Thread Rob Arthan
David, Many thanks for the new release. ProofPower builds and test fine on it. I don't have any specific feedback on performance yet - the build process itself is somewhat atypical. On 15 Sep 2012, at 09:16, David Matthews wrote: ... Object files now use standard text and data areas when

Re: [polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-16 Thread Michael Norrish
On 17/09/12 00:02, Rob Arthan wrote: Object files now use standard text and data areas when exporting. In particular this means that it is no longer necessary to use --segprot on Mac OS X to avoid a bus error. I have make files that detect Mac OS X and insert the -segprot option

[polyml] Poly/ML 5.5

2012-09-15 Thread David Matthews
I have finally released Poly/ML 5.5 on the SourceForge site. I still need to finish the release notes and update the Poly/ML web site. The major change is of course the complete rewrite of the storage management with the garbage-collector now parallelised. In testing the GC sharing pass