Evan, if you want to get involved in working on HPC, go for it! theres many many pieces of ghc that need more proactive ownership.
i should probably use HPC a bit as i start getting my numerical libs out, and i'm sure future me will appreciate current you working on making it better -Carter On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Evan Laforge <qdun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is anyone out there using HPC? It seems like it was gotten into a > more or less working if not ideal state, and then abandoned. > > Things I've noticed lately: > > The GHC runtime just quits on the spot if there's already a tix file. > This bit me when I was parallelizing tests. It's also completely > unsafe when run concurrently, mostly it just overwrites the file, > sometimes it quits. Sure to cause headaches for someone trying to > parallelize tests. > > You can't change the name of the output tix file, so I worked around > by hardlinking the binary to a bunch of new ones, and then doing 'hpc > sum' on the results. > > The hpc command is super slow. It might have to do with it doing its > parsing with Prelude's 'read', and it certainly doesn't help the error > msgs. > > And the whole thing is generally minimally documented. > > I can already predict the answer will be "yes, HPC could use some > love, roll up your sleeves and welcome!" It does look like it could > be improved a lot with just a bit of effort, but that would be a yak > too far for me, at the moment. I'm presently just curious if anyone > else out there is using it, and if they feel like it could do with a > bit of polishing. > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users >
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