On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 11:33:52AM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote: > Serge D. Mechveliani wrote: > >Dear GHC developers, > > > >I have tested ghc-6.8.0.20071015-src.tar.bz2 on DoCon and on > >Dumatel. > >It looks all right > > > >(except the bug-candidate for -O which is common to all GHC versions > >and which I recently reported > >). > > > >On DoCon, ghc-6.8.0.20071015 > >1) builds the project 2-3 times faster than ghc-6.6.1, > >2) its produced .a code is 1.6 times larger, > > I have noticed binary sizes increasing by around 20% on the nofib suite > too. We've discovered one issue with some dictionaries not being inlined > when we would expect them to, but there may be others. I'm investigating. >
All this you can easily reproduce in the public docon-2.10: build the library under -O, build demotest/Main under -Onot and see the timing of everything and the .a size. Then try to build demotest/Main under -O. And compare to 6.6.1. Regards, ----------- Mechveliani _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
