Resurrecting ticky code

Jan Stolarek jan.stolarek at p.lodz.pl
Mon Nov 3 19:35:14 UTC 2014


Hi,

I originally reported #8308 so I suppose I could help :-) But I need to find some time to take a 
look at your code - the ticket was reported over a year ago and I admit I don't remember much. 
I'll take a look at your patch soon (hopefully this week).

Janek

Dnia poniedziałek, 3 listopada 2014, Mateusz Lenik napisał:
> Hi *,
>
> Recently I started working on resurrecting ticky code[1] and got to the
> point where I can compile and run bumpHistogram as well as accompanying
> code in RTS.
>
> Work in progress version can be found at [2], but there are few things
> remaining to get it working:
>
> * missing calls to tickyReturnNewCon, tickyUnboxedTupleReturn and
>   tickyVectoredReturn need to be added. Unfortunately I'm not familiar with
> the code enough to find the right place to insert them.
>
> * magic eight needs to be replaced by a constant both Haskell and C files.
>   Preprocessor macro seems to be the simplest choice here, however I don't
> find it the cleanest way to do it.
>
> I would be very grateful if someone could take a look and point me into the
> right direction.
>
>
> Best,
> Mateusz
>
> 1: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8308
> 2: https://github.com/mlen/ghc/compare/ticky




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