X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=docs%2Fusers_guide%2Fusing.xml;h=6ffdf2a4189835d948decd5046b00478ea84c728;hb=e10324c192bb47ef4f7b3e3c53af7480902282fe;hp=eb6b0c00b8bf13cb83311a935af2b36a7432a52c;hpb=3bde199cda7f9ab65035e373d88dd3b98528a368;p=ghc-hetmet.git diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using.xml b/docs/users_guide/using.xml index eb6b0c0..6ffdf2a 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/using.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/using.xml @@ -1841,7 +1841,7 @@ f "2" = 2 special option or libraries compiled in a certain way. To get access to the support libraries for Concurrent Haskell, just import Control.Concurrent. More information on Concurrent Haskell is provided in the documentation for that module. + url="&libraryBaseLocation;/Control-Concurrent.html">Control.Concurrent. More information on Concurrent Haskell is provided in the documentation for that module. The following RTS option(s) affect the behaviour of Concurrent Haskell programs:RTS options, concurrent @@ -2074,9 +2074,27 @@ f "2" = 2 + : + + + (x86 only, added in GHC 6.14.1) Use the SSE2 registers and + instruction set to implement floating point operations + when using the native code generator. This gives a + substantial performance improvement for floating point, + but the resulting compiled code will only run on + processors that support SSE2 (Intel Pentium 4 and later, + or AMD Athlon 64 and later). + + + SSE2 is unconditionally used on x86-64 platforms. + + + + + : - (iX86 machines)-monly-N-regs + (x86 only)-monly-N-regs option (iX86 only) GHC tries to “steal” four registers from GCC, for performance reasons; it almost always works. However, when GCC is @@ -2107,7 +2125,7 @@ statements or clauses. GHC can dump its optimized intermediate code (said to be in “Core” format) to a file as a side-effect of compilation. Non-GHC back-end tools can read and process Core files; these files have the suffix - .hcr. The Core format is described in + .hcr. The Core format is described in An External Representation for the GHC Core Language, and sample tools for manipulating Core files (in Haskell) are in the GHC source distribution