From 12ec1e241c7c28da9fe6bc69788c0c81f556c746 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lynagh Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:16:16 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a new-IO manager release note --- docs/users_guide/6.14.1-notes.xml | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) 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 + 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. + + + + + The RTS now exports a function setKeepCAFs which is important when loading Haskell DLLs dynamically, as a DLL may refer to CAFs that hae already been GCed. -- 1.7.10.4