[jhc] ANNOUNCE: jhc-0.7.6

[Lemmih]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 9:16 AM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 04:14:00PM +0200, Lemmih wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 1:16 PM, John Meacham <john at repetae.net> wrote:
>> > Announcing jhc 0.7.6! This release fixes a large number of bugs that cropped up
>> > when compiling hoskell out in the wild. In addition it has some major internal
>> > cleanups and better support for cross-compilation. This is a minor release in
>> > that I am just announcing it on jhc at haskell.org.
>>
>> Benchmark updated with new results: http://mirror.seize.it/report.html
>
> Cool. I didn't expect too much change here, but it is good to see at
> least a little progress. Any luck on getting the RTS to limit ram use
> appropriately?

I've only been successful at substituting OOM errors with timeout errors so far.

> I have a couple ideas for low hanging fruit to help the
> speed/resource usage of the compiler I'll try to work into an upcoming
> release. Along with some better diagnostics output of memory usage for
> you.

Excellent.

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Cheers,
  Lemmih