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| author | Andreas Klebinger <klebinger.andreas@gmx.at> | 2020-04-06 13:35:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Marge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org> | 2020-06-25 03:54:37 -0400 |
| commit | 03a708ba8e8c323b07d8d2e0115d6eb59987cc02 (patch) | |
| tree | f15859999eaf961053fbeacc044e993b8e8a38d8 /docs/users_guide/8.12.1-notes.rst | |
| parent | a1f34d37b47826e86343e368a5c00f1a4b1f2bce (diff) | |
| download | haskell-03a708ba8e8c323b07d8d2e0115d6eb59987cc02.tar.gz | |
Enable large address space optimization on windows.
Starting with Win 8.1/Server 2012 windows no longer preallocates
page tables for reserverd memory eagerly, which prevented us from
using this approach in the past.
We also try to allocate the heap high in the memory space.
Hopefully this makes it easier to allocate things in the low
4GB of memory that need to be there. Like jump islands for the
linker.
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diff --git a/docs/users_guide/8.12.1-notes.rst b/docs/users_guide/8.12.1-notes.rst index c729a8ec6c..bc2414489f 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/8.12.1-notes.rst +++ b/docs/users_guide/8.12.1-notes.rst @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ Highlights GHC is now able to detect the case alt returning 3 as redundant. - Some more performance improvements in edge cases. +* Windows: Use the larg address space allocator. + + This improves runtime but causes increased memory usage on Windows versions + older than Win 8.1/Server 2012. + Full details ------------ @@ -166,6 +171,12 @@ Runtime system - Support for Windows Vista has been dropped. GHC-compiled programs now require Windows 7 or later. +- Windows now uses the large address space allocator by default. + In extreme cases we saw improvements by up to 3% decreased runtime. + + The downside is that haskell apps run on older (Pre Win-8.1/Server 2012) + systems will have higher memory footprints. + Template Haskell ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |