Re: Again: Uniques in GHC

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 11:40 AM, Austin Seipp wrote:

I still consider this a big limitation, one which is only due to an implementation detail.

To make this point more clear: I'm generally hesitant about basing the availability of architecture-independent features ('ghc supporting -j', which almost entirely was fixed in the frontend compiler pipeline) on platform details, or the underlying hardware or execution model GHC runs on. Unless the changes are very significant (like, -j gets significantly faster), I think we should be very hesitant about gating frontend features behind architectural/implementation details. -- Regards, Austin Seipp, Haskell Consultant Well-Typed LLP, http://www.well-typed.com/