Re: Monomorphism restriction - is this still needed for efficiency?

2006-06-12 Thread Simon Marlow
Brian Hulley wrote: I'm wondering if the monomorphism restriction is now just an anachronism from Haskell 98 or if it is still needed for efficiency ie should I just now use -fno-monomorphism-restriction when compiling all my code to consign it to the dustbin of history? :-) A related

Re: Solaris x86 package

2006-06-12 Thread Georg Sauthoff
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 05:35:20PM +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: Hi, [..] you need to build the whole tree (using gmake) with a file mk/build.mk that just contains the lines: [..] I will try it. I guess, because 6.4.3 includes some fixes, it make sense to do the packaging for that version

Re: ghc sparc NCG

2006-06-12 Thread Georg Sauthoff
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: Hi, On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:10 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote: at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms I read, that the Sparc NCG 'is bitrotted' - does that mean, that it is unmaintained, but used by default at

Re: ghc sparc NCG

2006-06-12 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 18:38 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote: On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:10 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote: at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms I read, that the Sparc NCG 'is bitrotted' - does that

Re: Monomorphism restriction - is this still needed for efficiency?

2006-06-12 Thread Brian Hulley
Simon Marlow wrote: Brian Hulley wrote: I'm wondering if the monomorphism restriction is now just an anachronism from Haskell 98 or if it is still needed for efficiency ie should I just now use -fno-monomorphism-restriction when compiling all my code to consign it to the dustbin of history?