Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 2

2015-11-08 Thread Jens Petersen
I haven't looked but I note for the record that the size of the tar.xz is increasing: 10547868 Mar 30 2015 ghc-7.10.1-src.tar.xz 3204 Jul 31 15:50 ghc-7.10.2-src.tar.xz 13270576 Nov 9 13:12 ghc-7.10.2.20151105-src.tar.xz Jens On 8 November 2015 at 07:28, Ben Gamari wrote: > We are pleased

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 2

2015-11-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
nope, my error was a bad copy and paste :) heres a link to my build (uses the GCC style rts build, which should be more performant than the default clang one last i checked, also has html docs and should work OS X >= 10.7) https://www.wellposed.com.s3.amazonaws.com/opensource/ghc/releasebuild-uno

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 2

2015-11-08 Thread George Colpitts
I get make[1]: *** [libraries/integer-gmp2/gmp/gmp.h] Error 1 make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no checking assembler .cfi pseudo-op support... yes checking for _ prefix in compiled symbols... yes checking whether .eh_frame section should b

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 2

2015-11-08 Thread Carter Schonwald
I'm having trouble setting the make file flags to make the Mac build use the intree gmp. I'm going to dig into this a bit more this evening. On Sunday, November 8, 2015, Ben Gamari wrote: > Ben Gamari > writes: > > > Ben Gamari > writes: > > > >> Hello everyone, > >> > >> We are pleased to anno

Re: Questions on the RTS C API regarding threads and tasks

2015-11-08 Thread Edward Z. Yang
Excerpts from Nicola Gigante's message of 2015-11-04 23:13:51 -0800: > We don't have measurements, but we ruled out this possibility for > performance reasons. Our idea is to make a thin Haskell wrapper > around a tiny bit of highly optimized C code. What's the performance > of locking on MVars?

Re: [ANNOUNCE] 7.10.3 release candidate 2

2015-11-08 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > Ben Gamari writes: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> We are pleased to announce the second release candidate for GHC 7.10.3: >> >> https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/7.10.3-rc2/ >> > It has been brought to my attention that the configure script in this > source tarballs is out