7.8.1 plan

[Austin Seipp]

Hello all,

As an updated, I'm looking into the report Mateusz had of 'free'
failing to build haddocks on OS X*, which I've reproduced. It seems
nasty - I'll follow up with details ASAP.

* See his recent email to ghc-devs about this problem.

On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk
<fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> wrote:
> On 25/03/14 17:09, kyra wrote:
>> On 3/25/2014 20:52, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
>>> The only instances of Haddock becoming really slow that I can think of
>>> is some rather old ticket (#101 on Haddock Trac) in presence of Template
>>> Haskell but I have closed it a while ago due to lack of information to
>>> go on and inability to replicate without the reporter's help. Perhaps
>>> this was your use case?
>>>
>> Aha, this is why I could not reproduce it! I checked it on packages
>> which used no TH, and that slow behaviour occurred when TH was involved!
>>
>> I think it is TH which really triggers producing and splitting of an
>> assembly output and in this case no-splitting gives *huge* benefit.
>> Sadly, I have no time to check this right now.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Kyra
>>
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>
> There's no rush as it's not going to get into 7.8.1 anyway but I would
> love to see some numbers before 7.8.2 so please keep us in mind.
>
> Thanks!
>
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Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant
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