[Haskell-cafe] shootout using 6.6?

[Don Stewart]

igouy2:
> 
> --- Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 
> > igouy2:
> > > Duncan Coutts wrote 
> > > 
> > > > Note that ghc-6.8.2 is in gentoo now and has been for a few
> > weeks.
> > > > There's no reason not to use it.
> > > 
> > > Cool! It shall be done!
> > 
> > Great. Do let us know when its available. A couple of benchmarks
> > will need to be tweaked in light of library changes.
> > 
> > I'm also hoping to see good speedups for constructor-matching
> > heavy programs like binary-trees. 
> 
> Yes that was a good speed up :-)
> 
> otoh there are several failing programs...
> 
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=ghc&lang2=ghc
> 
> 

Thanks for all your efforts here Isaac!

Yay, constructor specialisation!

    http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=binarytrees&lang=all

Looks like there's a few regressions, and a few failures. 

We can coordinate fixes on the wiki,

    http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Shootout

Cheers,
  Don