[Haskell-cafe] [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: GHC version 7.8.1

[Ketil Malde]

Austin Seipp <austin at well-typed.com> writes:

>     The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.8.1

Congrats!
     
>   * Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager

Just a brief note from the front lines - I recompiled a heavily threaded
program with (a recent pre-release) of 7.8.1 and got a 10% performance
increase over 7.6.3.  Nothing like free lunches - so thanks again for
the great work!

-k
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