Awesome,
I have been playing with GHC 7.6.0 until today and been very happy. Btw.
isn't this the version that officially includes "-fnew-codegen" / HOOPL?
Because the new codegen is optimizing the my ADPfusion library nicely.
I lost 50% speed with new features, gained 100% with new codegen,
meaning new features come for free ;-)
Viele Gruesse aus Copenhagen,
Christian
* Ian Lynagh
============================================================= The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 7.6.1 =============================================================
The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC, 7.6.1.
Here are some of the highlights of the 7.6 branch since 7.4:
* Polymorphic kinds and data promotion are now fully implemented and supported features.
* Windows 64bit is now a supported platform.
* It is now possible to defer type errors until runtime using the -fdefer-type-errors flag.
* The RTS now supports changing the number of capabilities at runtime with Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities.
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