RC timeline for 7.8 REDUX

2013-12-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
Hey Everyone, what is the set of tasks left before we can do a 7.8 RC? Is it there are some serious bugs that have been left unaddressed? Is there anything preventing us from doing an RC sometime in the next two weeks? I understand certain type system related problems have been getting a bit of

Re: LLVM and dynamic linking

2013-12-27 Thread Ben Gamari
Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com writes: This sounds right to me. Did you submit a patch? Note that dynamic linking with LLVM is likely to produce significantly worse code that with the NCG right now, because the LLVM back end uses dynamic references even for symbols in the same package,

Re: LLVM and dynamic linking

2013-12-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
great work! :) On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Ben Gamari bgamari.f...@gmail.com wrote: Simon Marlow marlo...@gmail.com writes: This sounds right to me. Did you submit a patch? Note that dynamic linking with LLVM is likely to produce significantly worse code that with the NCG right

Re: RC timeline for 7.8 REDUX

2013-12-27 Thread Richard Eisenberg
As someone CC'd on this email directly, I'll answer for myself: While I've benefited from the delay to fine-tune the behavior of certain bits bobs, I didn't request the delay nor do I believe myself responsible for generating or needing to fix any blocking feature. Please correct me if I'm

Re: RC timeline for 7.8 REDUX

2013-12-27 Thread Carter Schonwald
gotcha. I didn't mean to imply any such responsibility, i merely cc'd the folks who i know have been actively hacking on stuff thats landing in 7.8 in the past monthish because they are more apt to be informed (one hopes :) ) thanks! -Carter On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Richard Eisenberg