[m-rev.] for post-commit review: compilation of large programs in NEWS
Julien Fischer
jfischer at opturion.com
Fri Apr 26 17:06:02 AEST 2013
For post-commit review by anyone.
Add improved compilation for large programs to 13.05 NEWS.
NEWS:
Mention Zoltan's various improvements for supporting compilation
of large programs.
Julien.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ec83e0a..27b7861 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -60,6 +60,14 @@ Changes to the Mercury compiler:
* A new option, `--cstack-reserve-size', allows the size of the C
stack for executables to be changed on Microsoft Windows systems.
+* We have improved compilation times for very large programs. In
+ particular, compilation times for predicates containing the following
+ have been improved:
+ - large ground terms
+ - large disjunctions
+ - large numbers of higher constructs and/or code that uses
+ large hierarchies of type classes
+
Changes to the Mercury debugger:
* We have added new capabilities to the "level", "retry" and "finish" mdb
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