<listitem>
<para>
The full Haskell <literal>import</literal> syntax can now been
- used to bring modules into scope in GHCi.
+ used to bring modules into scope in GHCi, e.g.
</para>
+<programlisting>
+Prelude> import Data.List as L
+Prelude Data.List> L.length "foo"
+3
+</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
<listitem>
<para>
+ On POSIX platforms, the RTS now has a new I/O manager based
+ on epoll/kqueue/poll, which allows it to scale to a much
+ larger number (100k+) of open file descriptors.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
The RTS now exports a function <literal>setKeepCAFs</literal>
which is important when loading Haskell DLLs dynamically, as
a DLL may refer to CAFs that hae already been GCed.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
- GHCi now supports full import syntax, e.g.
- </para>
-<programlisting>
-Prelude> import Data.List as L
-Prelude Data.List> L.length "foo"
-3
-</programlisting>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
GHCi now understands the layout of multiline-commands, so
this now works:
</para>