Again: Uniques in GHC

[Carter Schonwald]

in some respects, having fully deterministic builds is a very important
goal: a lot of tooling for eg, caching builds of libraries works much much
better if you have that property :)

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 12:45 PM, <p.k.f.holzenspies at utwente.nl> wrote:

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> From: mad.one at gmail.com <mad.one at gmail.com> on behalf of Austin Seipp <
> austin at well-typed.com>
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> So I assume your change would mean 'ghc -j' would not work for 32bit.
> I still consider this a big limitation, one which is only due to an
> implementation detail. But we need to confirm this will actually fix
> any bottlenecks first though before getting to that point.
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> Yes, that's what I'm saying.
>
> Let me just add that what I'm proposing by no means prohibits or hinders
> making 32-bit GHC-versions be parallel later on, it just doesn't solve the
> problem. It depends to what extent the "fully deterministic behaviour" bug
> is considered a priority (there was something about parts of the hi-files
> being non-deterministic across different executions of GHC; don't recall
> the details).
>
> Anyhow, the work I'm doing now exposes a few things about Uniques that
> confuse me a little and that could have been bugs (that maybe never acted
> up). Extended e-mail to follow later on.
>
> Ph.
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