Re: Experiment: ghc-api and --split-objs

2008-05-20 Thread Simon Marlow
Bertram Felgenhauer wrote: I've made an experiment compiling ghc-api with --split-objs. To summarize, while this is not worthwhile for the compiler itself, it could be a huge win for plugin libraries. A fairly detailed description can be found here,

Re: whence _stub.c ?

2008-05-20 Thread Simon Marlow
Don Stewart wrote: what causes ghc to emit a stub.c file? - Conal the use of 'foreign export' - Don or 'foreign import wrapper' ___ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org

Re: -optc-O2 considered useful

2008-05-20 Thread Bernd Brassel
I think it would be nice to have some speedy optimizations turned on by default in ghc. Might even be good to win new users. But I also think that much hacking for and around ghc+tool support needs a way to achieve what -O0 does today. So, how about an -O(-1) or flag?

Re: Type checker loops with innocent looking associated type synonym

2008-05-20 Thread Manuel M T Chakravarty
Stefan Holdermans: Should I report this a bug? Or is it perhaps already been taken care of in the head? Probably the latter. But really as, Bulat wrote, type families in 6.8 are unsupported. Please test your code with a HEAD snapshot. If that goes wrong, a bug report on Trac would be