I've gotten some feedback and suggestions on IRC from Edwardk, i'm currently massaging the new (useful!) form through validate, feedback on https://phabricator.haskell.org/D350 would be appreciated!
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Carter Schonwald < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey Everyone, > in > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9353 > and > https://phabricator.haskell.org/D350 > > is some preliminary work to fix up how the pure versions of the prefetch > primops work is laid out and prototyped. > > However, while it nominally fixes up some of the problems with how the > current pure prefetch apis are fundamentally borken, the simple design in > D350 isn't quite ideal, and i sketch out some other ideas in the associated > ticket #9353 > > I'd like to make sure pure prefetch in 7.10 is slightly less broken than > in 7.8, but either way, its pretty clear that working out the right fixed > up design wont happen till 7.12. Ie, whatever makes 7.10, there WILL have > to be breaking changes to fix those primops for 7.12 > > thanks and any feedback / thoughts appreciated > -Carter >
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