lazy primop

[Simon Marlow]

On 27/05/2009 14:51, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:44 +0200, David Waern wrote:
>> 2009/5/27 Simon Peyton-Jones<simonpj at microsoft.com>:
>>> (The old index just displayed a list of first letters, fast, and the
>> functions beginning with a particular letter loaded reasonably
>> quickly.  I'm not saying let's go back, but it was a lot faster.)
>> We have a ticket for that:
>>
>>    http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/106
>>
>> So hopefully we'll do something about it some day :-)
>
> In the mean time, I think it would be better to revert to the
> haddock-0.8 index (the new slow search was added in 0.9 iirc). A web
> browser can search within the index page really quickly. Presumably it
> would not be very hard to change to the old code?

Isaac - maybe you'd like to have a look at 
http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/106 as a warm-up exercise for 
your SoC project?  It's a fairly high-priority fix for Haddock, and 
shouldn't be too hard.

Cheers,
	Simon