Re[2]: GHC 6.4.3 is stalled

2006-07-29 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Simon, Friday, July 28, 2006, 5:30:47 PM, you wrote: on 6.4.1 threaded RTS was used only in specially build libs. in debugging versions of libs and GHCi single-threaded RTS was used. developers of threaded programs was complaining about this situation because it makes their debugging

Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X and OpenSSL

2006-07-29 Thread p . tanski
GHC Task Ticket # 601 suggests replacing GMP with OpenSSL's Bignum library, BN. I have two questions concerning this: (1) Why not use the ARbitrary PRECision Computation Package (ARPREC) by David Bailey, Yozo Hida, Karthik Jeyabalan, Xiaoye Li and Brandon Thompson? Here is a reference web page:

Re: Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS-X and OpenSSL

2006-07-29 Thread Seth Kurtzberg
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:45:21 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: GHC Task Ticket # 601 suggests replacing GMP with OpenSSL's Bignum library, BN. I have two questions concerning this: (1) Why not use the ARbitrary PRECision Computation Package (ARPREC) by David Bailey, Yozo Hida, Karthik

(Repost) Replacement for GMP as Bignum: ARPREC? Haskell?; OS X and OpenSSL

2006-07-29 Thread p . tanski
(Sorry for the repost: I needed to correct a few typos--thanks Seth--and clarify a few things.) GHC Task Ticket # 601 suggests replacing GMP with OpenSSL's Bignum library, BN. I have two questions concerning this: (1) Why not use the ARbitrary PRECision Computation Package (ARPREC) by David

Re: Re: Rebuilding GHC on Mac OSX PPC

2006-07-29 Thread p . tanski
Sorry to flood your mailboxes with my junk, but I had a few questions on the configuration and Makefiles for building GHC on OS 10.4: The odd memory bugs (wierd malloc errors) seem to remind me of errors using pthreads... in Joel Reymont's email, I noticed that ghc is given the -threaded