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  1. Bug #263773
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 263773

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StefanPotyra (sistpoty) wrote : Re: [Bug 263773] Re: ghc 6.8.2 has important performance bug, should be updated to 6.8.3

Hi,

On Monday 08 September 2008 13:32:36 Mark Stosberg wrote:
[..]
>
> have this bug without changing the ABI?
>
> Stefan said "the fix would change the ghc6 abi". That could be clarified
> was to whether *any* fix would do that, or fixing it via upgrading 6.8.3
> would do that.

Any fix applied to ghc would do that... :/

>
> Let me restate Zooko's concern more plainly from a users perspective: Is
> there a way to ship a fixed darcs binary, regardless of what happens
> with GHC and the Haskell package chain?

that's a good question, and I only know about it what's presented at
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue973.

Any help in this regard would be highly appreciated!

Cheers,
    Stefan.