From: Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:16:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a new-IO manager release note
X-Git-Url: http://git.megacz.com/?p=ghc-hetmet.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=12ec1e241c7c28da9fe6bc69788c0c81f556c746

Add a new-IO manager release note
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/6.14.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/6.14.1-notes.xml
index 90f4954..58ae747 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/6.14.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/6.14.1-notes.xml
@@ -215,6 +215,14 @@ import SpecConstr
 
       <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.