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authorIan Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>2010-08-27 17:16:16 +0000
committerIan Lynagh <igloo@earth.li>2010-08-27 17:16:16 +0000
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Add a new-IO manager release note
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@@ -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.