Wiki page about new memcpy/memmove/memset primops need a home
Hi, I intend to write a short wiki page explaining the design and use of the new memcpy/memmove/memset primops we added recently. Where would be a good place to put such a page? Cheers, Johan
Johan, First, thanks for the new primops! :) While someone else may have a better idea, I would simply suggest creating a wiki page at the top-level namespace of the GHC wiki, and linking to it from the GHC Commentary page. If we look at this page now and go to the 'contributed documentation' section it seems a large portion of the 3rd party written documentation is like this (my plugins page, Iavor's type naturals work, etc): http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary So I'd make a page something like: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MemcpyPrimops and link to it. If a top-level wiki page isn't to your liking, instead I'd rather suggest you just put it under the 'Commentary' or 'Commentary/Compiler' namespaces, and link the same way. I know that I, as an occasional patch contributor, always check this top-level Commentary page for any random up to date notes on what people might be working on or implementing or what they might need help with. But whatever you do, looking at that page, it seems as if the commentary could stand up for a good spring cleaning... On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I intend to write a short wiki page explaining the design and use of the new memcpy/memmove/memset primops we added recently. Where would be a good place to put such a page?
Cheers, Johan
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-- Regards, Austin
I would suggest it be put under the Commentary/Compiler. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler Just add it as a top level bullet point for now, maybe after 'Wired-in and known-key things'. Also you should update the Cmm language page: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/CmmType#Operato... Include a small update to the page and link to the main page on the new prim ops. Cheers, David On 8 June 2011 14:05, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I intend to write a short wiki page explaining the design and use of the new memcpy/memmove/memset primops we added recently. Where would be a good place to put such a page?
Cheers, Johan
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On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:26 PM, David Terei <davidterei@gmail.com> wrote:
I would suggest it be put under the Commentary/Compiler.
Here's a first draft: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/MemcpyOptimizations Feel free to point out things that need clarification. Cheers, Johan
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