Re: 6.8.1-candidate tested

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