FW: ghc, linux

[Simon Marlow]

On 14 March 2005 16:04, Yong Luo wrote:

> I installed a very old version of GHC in the same laptop in 2001 and
> it was working well ("no matter how big the program was"). Now, I
> upgraded it to version 6.2.2, but it becomes very slow and asks more
> Memory or Space. 
> 
> I know, 64M memory is not big at all nowadays, but I don't think GHC
> should ask more than that and force me to throw away my old laptop
> -:). In fact, most of my work can be done within 64M except GHC.

I'm afraid, GHC has become a bit more of a hog recently due to lack of
attention in the performance department.  I hope we'll be able to
improve things for later 6.4 patchlevels.

Cheers,
	Simon