6.8.1-candidate tested

[Simon Marlow]

Serge D. Mechveliani wrote:
> Dear GHC developers,
> 
> I have tested  ghc-6.8.0.20071015-src.tar.bz2  on DoCon and on 
> Dumatel.  
> It looks all right
> 
> (except the bug-candidate for -O which is common to all GHC versions
> and which I recently reported
> ).
> 
> On DoCon,  ghc-6.8.0.20071015  
> 1) builds the project 2-3 times faster than  ghc-6.6.1,  
> 2) its produced  .a  code is  1.6  times larger,

I have noticed binary sizes increasing by around 20% on the nofib suite 
too.  We've discovered one issue with some dictionaries not being inlined 
when we would expect them to, but there may be others.  I'm investigating.

Cheers,
	Simon