Dear GHC, Here are some comments on ghc-5.02.2. I have tested it in the following way. 1. Installed binary = ghc-5.02.2-i386-linux-unknown. 2. Compiled ghc-5.02.2-source with binary for linux-i386, under empty mk/build.mk, removed binary installation. 3. Compiled a large Haskell project DoCon under -O (making package, -fglasgow-exts, overlappings ...) 4. Run DoCon test. It looks all right. * It spends the memory in a better way when making a project and loading interpreted modules. * It looks fixed the bug with the value visibility in ghci in (let f = ...; let g = h f ...) Some questions -------------- * up-arrow key does not work in ghci, and it worked in binary installation. Probably, some library was not found. How to fix this? I have stored config.log of `./configure ...' and makeall.log of `make all'. `make boot' (before `make all') did nothing and issued a message recommending to run a thing something in some subdirectory, and I skipped this command at all. Do I mistake? * the directory /share always neighboured to /bin /lib in the installation directory. Why it is absent now? Maybe, the up-arrow bug is related to this? * Where to find the ghc manual in the .ps form, like set.ps provided by binary installation? * The interpreted code looks 2-3 times larger than compiled one. DoCon-library has size 11 Mb, .o files of compiled test take less than 2 Mb, test loading ghci -package docon T_ +RTS -Mxx -RTS needs xx = 12 for the compiled full test T_, 31 for interpreted T_. If DoCon-library is out of the heap reserved by -M (is it?), then, we have that interpreted code is 2.6 times larger. Is this due to large interaces kept in heap? Please, advise, ----------------- Serge Mechveliani mechvel@botik.ru