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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/using.xml b/docs/users_guide/using.xml
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+++ 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