igloo: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:00:57PM -0700, Duncan Coutts wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-10-04 at 15:50 -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > > BTW, this is why we cannot ship with the old bytestring fork of 0.9 > > > bumping around in GHC. > > > > That and the not-closing-file-handles bug. > > I believe I've just fixed this, but please let me know if there is more > to it. > > If the only other known issue is an unidentified performance bug (which > isn't a regression, and may even just be due to the flags used when > compiling or something) then I'd favour sticking with the current code > at this point in the release. We are less likely to be bitten by unknown > issues, API changes etc that way.
The serious performance bug is fixed in the last 4 or 5 bytestring releases. It was due to inlining of Eq and Ord, interferring with fusion laws. That's long been fixed, but GHC is shipping a fork of bytestring 0.9, with all that cruft. -- Don _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc
