Adding Mark who's the release manager for the platform (and also the maintainer of the OS X builds).
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Erik Hesselink <hessel...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Carter Schonwald >> <carter.schonw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> To the best of my knowledge there is absolutely no reason to use the 32bit >>> haskell on OS X (aside from memory usage optimization cases which likely do >>> not matter to the *typical* user), and the community should probably update >>> the recommendation to reflect this. >> >> The source of the recommendation are the benchmark results presented here: >> >> http://mtnviewmark.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/32-bits-less-is-more/ >> >> The problem of missing 32-bit C libraries might be a good reason for >> us to recommend 64-bit though and leave the 32-bit recommendation to >> people who know what they are doing. > > We switched to a 64bit GHC recently for this exact reason. The 64bit > libraries are either already installed, or can easily be installed > through e.g. brew. For 32bit libraries, we sometimes had to compile > from source, passing all kinds of flags. The downside for us is > doubling the memory usage, but that's more easily solved (with more > memory). I haven't noticed the performance reduction. > > So in short, I think the 64bit version should be the default > recommendation on OS X. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe