Re: Changes to primops break libraries (was Re: 7.8 Feature window)

2013-08-25 Thread Simon Marlow
On 22/08/13 15:31, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote: | Oh, and I think that using sameTVar# for primop and sameTVar for wrapper | is a good choice, even if we make transition slightly more difficult. | This naming feels better to me You said that before, but *why* does the naming feel better to you?

Re: Getting rid of HEAP_ALLOCED

2013-08-25 Thread Simon Marlow
On 24/08/13 23:08, Edward Z. Yang wrote: Part of the resource limits work needs to access the bdescr for a thunk when it is entered. Of course, right now, this needs to go through HEAP_ALLOCED; I imagine this would way to slow to put into the generated code. So I happened across this page