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| author | Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com> | 2013-09-08 16:17:39 -0500 |
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| committer | Austin Seipp <aseipp@pobox.com> | 2013-09-08 16:17:39 -0500 |
| commit | 2cec084e45392e0b0d198254017b140accee32f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 93a7e20557957acb184f38adfb8892a4c663b319 /docs | |
| parent | 88dba610df290ff7807a76f702f2e5d41887500b (diff) | |
| download | haskell-2cec084e45392e0b0d198254017b140accee32f0.tar.gz | |
Revert "Note infinite stack default in release notes."
This reverts commit c798a8c6c66d826efdc0201fa56d45337eecc2af.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml | 21 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml index 2021fc61a8..15bf82bc68 100644 --- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml +++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml @@ -346,27 +346,6 @@ <listitem> <para> - By default, the maximum stack size in the runtime - system is now infinite. This is controlled by the - <literal>+RTS -K</literal> flag, which was - previously defaulted to 8MB. In general, this - will allow more programs to run as they will no - longer stack overflow as quickly, although they - may use much more memory. - </para> - - <para> - Note that you will still eventually encounter a - stack overflow - when the heap is completely - exhausted, as stacks are serviced from the - storage manager. This will cause a runtime abort - after invoking - <literal>StackOverflowHook</literal>. - </para> - </listitem> - - <listitem> - <para> The performance of <literal>StablePtr</literal>s and <literal>StableName</literal>s has been improved. </para> |