[darcs-users] darcs 1.0.5 release

[Will]

Hi Simon,

Simon Marlow <simonmar at gmail.com> writes:

> On 12/7/05, zooko at zooko.com <zooko at zooko.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Darcs no longer crashes when processing large patches on Windows.
>>
>> (Simon Marlow)
>
> Just checking - did you actually build with the regex fix?  I can put
> up a fixed libHSbase_cbits.a somewhere if that would help.
>
> I believe there is another bug in the garbage collector, which may
> manifest itself on Windows because on Windows the compacting GC gets
> turned on automatically when the memory requirements of the program
> approach 256M.  I'm still looking into this.

I built the latest version of the ghc-6-4-stable branch and used that
to compile darcs.  Recording large patches now works fine as long as I
pass +RTS -Hxx options because of the large heap use.

Thanks,
Will