On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Jason Dagit wrote: >> GHC developers don't think their compiler is efficient/speedy. I'm sure >> that's not the case, but it certainly gives the impression from some of the >> text/complaints on the earlier linked sources. > > I have a different take on that actually. The Simons have been great at > giving feedback and detailed bug reports. Ian is one of the biggest > contributors in Darcs history and is also a GHC dev.
On the other hand, Ian has also contributed a grand total of one line of code to darcs since he started work on ghc, so this isn't a strong case that ghc is contributing to darcs. > Don Stewart and Duncan Coutts have both helped with libraries that Darcs > uses, (in particular by improving FPS into Data.ByteString) and both > contribute to GHC it appears. Of course, darcs only recently began to use Data.ByteString, and even now it's not the default. > I feel grateful for the level of involvement from GHC and Haskell.org. > Obviously more is better, but I think they have contributed a lot already. We've no grounds for complaint against the ghc folks, as they've written the compiler we use, and Simon M has been very helpful in our switch to System.Process and the associated difficulties. But it's also true that very few code contributions have come back to us from ghc central. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
