On 05/06/2016 11:04 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Hi all, > > After a bit of rather tedious and frustrating debugging I came to the > realisation that the code for the `-hb` profiling option is not thread > safe. See https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/12019 > > This gives us an opportunity to simply remove it instead of fixing it. > If there is anyone that thinks this future is really useful (ie more > useful than the other profiling modes) then I'm willing to fix it. > But if noone would miss it. I'd much rather remove it. >
I can't say I've ever used the option, but just to inform discussion... Do you have any guesstimate[1] of how much effort it would take to fix vs. just removing? Unless there's a reasonably clear idea of how much effort there's going to be in it[2], I usually err on the side of removal *unless* a really good case can be made. Regards, [1] As ballpark as you like. Even a ratio would work, I think. [2] Which tends to not be the case for threading-related issues. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
