Yikes! You're right. I never noticed, but I never had an 8 GB Mac
before.
I looked at ./configure for the GHC 6.10.2 source, and realized there
was already something there. I tried
./configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin
and it didn't work. However, it did give me something to Google,
leading me to
Ticket #2965 (new feature request)
GHC on OS X does not compile 64-bit
1/19/09
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2965
Apparently this isn't a one-liner. Once my semester ends, I'll see if
I can help.
I've got to wonder if it would be less work to sneak a gift Mac Pro
past Microsoft security, and just wait? ;-)
The GHC team has been busting their humps on parallel code lately, and
OS X does so much better... They should stop having to apologize in
papers for the poor parallel performance of Linux itself. A decked-out
Mac Pro should be the flagship platform for 64 bit, parallel GHC.
On Apr 18, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Daniel Peebles wrote:
That looks great! I wonder what about Mac OS leads to such good
performance...
Now if only we could get a nice x86_64-producing GHC for Mac OS too, I
could use all my RAM and the extra registers my Mac Pro gives me :)
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