Some issues with nofib

[Simon Marlow]

On 01/08/2010 22:18, Ian Lynagh wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:37:10AM -0300, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote:
>>
>> I tried to run nofib/gc and went into some problems.  The first was with
>> fibheaps, which was getting out of stack size.  I tried increasing the from 16m
>> to 32m, and it kept getting out of stack size.  So I increased to 64m and it
>> worked.
>
> I couldn't reproduce this with a default nofib run, and mode=slow seems
> to be broken for fibheaps, but I've pushed the patch anyway.
>
>> Another problem with nofib/gc was
>> the nofib/gc/ghc.  I was getting "command not found" errors, so I just removed
>> it from the list in nofib/gc/Makefile and it worked.
>
> Looks like it's bitrotted following the GHC build system changes. I've
> pushed a patch to remove it from the list.

It never actually worked, in fact - when I used it I put the GHC binary 
in the directory manually.  Ok to remove it, I shouldn't have pushed it 
anyway.

> nofib could really benefit from a bit of TLC.

Alternatively, euthanasia might be a better option :)

Cheers,
	Simon