Re: Improving GHC GC for latency-sensitive networked services

2016-10-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Christopher Allen writes: > It'd be unfortunate if more companies trying out Haskell came to the > same result: > https://blog.pusher.com/latency-working-set-ghc-gc-pick-two/#comment-2866985345 > (They gave up and rewrote the service in Golang) > Aside: Go strikes me as an

Compact regions in users guide

2016-10-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Hello Compact Regions authors, It occurs to me that the compact regions support that is due to be included in GHC 8.2 is lacking any discussion in the users guide. At very least we should have a mention in the release notes (this is one of the major features of 8.2, afterall) and a brief overview

Improving GHC GC for latency-sensitive networked services

2016-10-17 Thread Christopher Allen
It'd be unfortunate if more companies trying out Haskell came to the same result: https://blog.pusher.com/latency-working-set-ghc-gc-pick-two/#comment-2866985345 (They gave up and rewrote the service in Golang) Most of the state of the art I'm aware of (such as from Azul Systems) is from when I

Re: Dataflow analysis for Cmm

2016-10-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Michal Terepeta writes: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:57 AM Jan Stolarek > wrote: > >> Second question: how could we merge this? (...) >> I'm not sure if I understand. The end result after merging will be exactly >> the same, right? Are >> you

Re: Status of GHC testsuite driver on Windows

2016-10-17 Thread Ben Gamari
Ben Gamari writes: > So I spent my weekend in the jungles Windows compatibility layers. I'll > spare you the details as they are gruesome but here's a brief summary, > > * There are a few nasty bugs currently in msys2 which affect the GHC >testsuite driver: > > *

Re: Dataflow analysis for Cmm

2016-10-17 Thread Michal Terepeta
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:57 AM Jan Stolarek wrote: > Michał, > > Dataflow module could indeed use cleanup. I have made two attempts at this > in the past but I don't > think any of them was merged - see [1] and [2]. [2] was mostly > type-directed simplifications. It >

Re: GHC Trac spam filter is rejecting new registrations

2016-10-17 Thread Robert Henderson
Thanks for fixing that, registration seems to be working fine now. Cheers, Rob On 15/10/16 16:38, Ben Gamari wrote: > Robert Henderson writes: > >> Hi, >> >> I've been trying to register a new account on GHC Trac in order to >> submit a bug report, and I'm getting the

Re: Dataflow analysis for Cmm

2016-10-17 Thread Jan Stolarek
Michał, Dataflow module could indeed use cleanup. I have made two attempts at this in the past but I don't think any of them was merged - see [1] and [2]. [2] was mostly type-directed simplifications. It would be nice to have this included in one form or another. It sounds like you also have