
I didn't know you'd tripped over this. Try with -fno-generics. If that solves it I'll explain why. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Ross Paterson [mailto:ross@soi.city.ac.uk] | Sent: 05 January 2005 18:11 | To: Simon Marlow | Cc: Isaac Jones; Simon Peyton-Jones; libraries@haskell.org | Subject: Re: package description files | | On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 04:22:50PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: | > We're planning to ship GHC 6.4 "very soon", [...] | | But not before compiling large data definitions is a bit faster?

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:46:20AM -0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
I didn't know you'd tripped over this.
Try with -fno-generics. If that solves it I'll explain why.
fptools/libraries/haskell-src/Language/Haskell/Syntax.hs takes a long time to compile, and -fno-generics doesn't seem to help (not that that's the sort of advice you want to be handing out to everyone).
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