5.04 ?

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Simon is going to look into the storage management bug.
I believe that it does not show up if you do not use the
(new) compacting garbage collector, correct?=20

We'll produce 5.02.1 when we know what the cause is;=20
meanwhile, can you just switch off compacting GC?
(Admittedly, that would be easier to do if you could
specify some run-time flags at link time, which is something
we've been thinking about.)

Simon

| -----Original Message-----
| From: S.D.Mechveliani [mailto:mechvel@math.botik.ru]=20
| Sent: 29 September 2001 13:46
| To: glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org
| Cc: Simon Marlow
| Subject: 5.04 ?
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| Dear GHC,
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| I have tested  ghc-5.02 =20
| on various examples of computer algebra, with -O too.
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| All tests are all right,
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| except it shows a bug in memory management (Simon Marlow=20
| wrote of), visible in subtly chosen cases.=20
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| The impression is that 5.02 saves much memory and gains performance=20
| in situations involving garbage collections (most practicable case).
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| But due to the above bug, would  5.04  appear soon as a stable=20
| release?
| For I need to mention some newest stable GHC release in DoCon=20
| program documentation.
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| Regards,
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| -----------------
| Serge Mechveliani
| mechvel@botik.ru
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