[darcs-users] performance (was GHC and Darcs)

[Eric Kow]

> Could you point us to some of the tickets which are/were most frustrating to
> the GHC developers?

Some bugs filed by the GHC team
[a1] conflicts issues : http://bugs.darcs.net/issue969
[a2] fixed in darcs2 : http://bugs.darcs.net/issue842
[b] still too slow:  http://bugs.darcs.net/issue973
[c] warts remaining: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue971 and
http://bugs.darcs.net/issue965

> I have the idea that darcs-2 has not yet benefitted from newly developed
> Haskell tools such as profilers.

As I mentioned on Reddit, darcs essentially suffers from the day job
problem.  If we could get a Haskeller whose job is to work on darcs,
at least for a few months, I think we could make a lot of progress.
(The best candidate would of course have some experience with writing
fast Haskell, and of course, funding).

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