Hi,

On Friday 05 September 2008 21:11:41 Zooko O'Whielacronx wrote:
> This is actually a correctness bug for other applications that use the
> filesystem and use GHC, right?  GHC is returning incorrect values for
> file size and other stats, is that right?  And darcs somehow manages to
> turn this incorrect answer into a correct but slow answer?

correct.

>
> What about the option of patching the GHC shipped by Ubuntu to not have
> this bug without changing the ABI?

The problem is, that the fix itself actually changes the ABI.

Cheers,
   Stefan.

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ghc 6.8.2 has important performance bug, should be updated to 6.8.3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263773
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