| profiling bigtime. I fixed it, but I don't know whether y'all want my
code...
| (for some reason I feel like I'm talking to myself here.)

Sorry about that.  The ICFP deadline was last Friday, and both Simon and
I have been largely away since then.   And I was away quite a bit during
March too.  Net result: slow progress on the GHC front and lack of
response to ghc-bug mail.

Simon is still away early next week, but after that I think we'll be
more or less back to normal.

More generally, GHC has become large enough, and is used by enough
people, that Simon and I are hard pressed to keep up with all the ways
people use it.  For example, I confess that generating External Core
with profiling on, and reading it in again, isn't something that we'd
tested.

I'm sure this maintenance issue will become increasingly pressing.  This
is basically good news --- GHC is used by more and more people to do
more and more things on more and more platforms.  To make it
sustainable, though, we need more of you GHC users to be willing to help
fix problems.  Quite a few people already do (see for example
http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/ghc/contributors.html; please yell if you
think you should be credited there and aren't) but more are needed.   We
love it when people send us cures as well as bug reports!  GHC's long
term future as open-source software relies on participation by as many
folk as possible.  

So Kirsten, yes do please send your proposed patch.  Thanks for digging
deep enough to find out what's going on.  

Simon
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