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| author | Tamar Christina <tamar@zhox.com> | 2020-10-09 10:03:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Ben Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-10-16 10:21:20 -0400 |
| commit | b1a2c5e4508d61bc0bedc13c7240b6fbf674157e (patch) | |
| tree | cbf182f029cf47e88ab468178dff92cd639f5923 | |
| parent | 64ab97bfdae8ca094d677ad27aecf514e7acafd0 (diff) | |
| download | haskell-b1a2c5e4508d61bc0bedc13c7240b6fbf674157e.tar.gz | |
winio: add release note
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.rst index a0b112b333..bba1f0dfc4 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/9.0.1-notes.rst @@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ Highlights This improves runtime but causes increased memory usage on Windows versions older than Win 8.1/Server 2012. +* Windows: New IO Manager. + + A new I/O manager (WinIO) is now available as a community technical preview which is designed to allow experimentation and + bootstrapping of third-party packages such as Network. The new I/O manager is off by default and can be enabled with the + RTS flag ``--io-manager=native``. Currently the I/O manager is *unoptimized* and is focused more on correctness. There is also + no support for pipes and sockets. These will be added in the next release. `*see more* <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgNh5mdZ1xw>`__. + * Big-number support - GHC now relies on a new ``ghc-bignum`` package to provide Integer/Natural |