[Haskell-cafe] FPS lib

[Krasimir Angelov]

2005/10/19, Simon Marlow <simonmar at microsoft.com>:
> On 19 October 2005 01:08, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > Ah!! So what's going on on Linux, I wonder. Could it be something
> > about
> > 6.4.1? Are we seeing the difference between ForeignPtrs from 6.4 to
> > 6.5? I will investigate.
>
> I bet that's the difference between ForeignPtrs in 6.4.1 and 6.5.  I'm
> very tempted to merge the ForeignPtr optimisations into 6.4.2, so we can
> benefit from this earlier.  The changes are all confined to one module
> (GHC/ForeignPtr.hs).

I made my benchmarking with ghc-6.5 and I am getting relatively the
same result as with ghc-6.4.1. I checked that the optimized ForeignPtr
implementation is in my source tree. Any thoughts?

Cheers,
   Krasimir