Hi Ben
It would be good if the status page (
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/GHC-8.2.1) could be updated
with what we will actually be getting. In particular, according to
https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10074 Implement the 'Improved LLVM
Backend' proposal has been deferred to 8.4.1
Thanks
George
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 1:25 PM Ben Gamari
Hello everyone,
Over the last week I've been busily helping Richard finish up the last bits destined for 8.2.1. At this point things are looking okay, although there is still a bit of a push necessary before we can cut an 8.2 branch,
* We have decided to punt the separation of * and Constraint (#11715) off to 8.4 due to design complications
* The generalization of (->)'s kind (D2038) is done and passes the testsuite save a performance regression which I am currently investigating
* The recent levity polymorphism work regressed the profiled build (#13223) which I am working on fixing.
* The type-indexed Typeable patch works save one regression which I am working on with Simon
* Merge the subset of OverloadedRecordFields wanted for 8.2
* Update boot library submodules
It looks likely that these tasks will require a majority of the rest of this week to work out. Consequently, I'm currently aiming to cut the branch for 8.2 on Friday. I'll then spend a few days testing the tree against Hackage and, if nothing goes terribly awry, likely cut a source release mid-to-late next week.
Cheers,
- Ben
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