I'd like to second that. 6.8 is quite an improvement. Well done! -- Lennart
On Nov 8, 2007 12:18 PM, Ravi Nanavati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just finished a running Bluespec's regression suite on a version of > our tools compiled with ghc 6.8.1. The results were impressive on two > fronts: > > 1. All of our tests (almost 14,000) had the same behavior as with ghc 6.6.1 > 2. Our Haskell code was roughly 33% faster (relative to ghc 6.6.1). It > seems that pointer-tagging made a big difference for our code base > (since, if I'm reading the release notes correctly, constructor > specialization isn't in yet). > > We just wanted to take a moment to say that we were pleasantly > surprised by ghc 6.8.1 (so much so that we're going to try and use it > for released builds sooner than we would have otherwise planned) and > to thank everyone involved for the effort they put into it. > > Thank you, > > - Ravi Nanavati (and the rest of Bluespec, Inc.) > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
