| 7 Sep 2025 |
 Alex | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
did you have to patch it for Hugs support? Nope, this is already something Lennart has sorted out.
Though I did, amusingly, have to patch Hugs because it was broken in the Nixpkgs commit I started from (someone else wrote that patch, so no effort on my part). | 21:38:44 |
| Alex | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
have you talked with Lennart about this? I don't think so, but I will try and upstream whatever improvements/fixes I make along the way.
(And I expect there to be a lot.) | 21:39:19 |
 emily | well AIUI the upstream build system either compiles the C blob or uses GHC right? | 21:43:23 |
| emily | so adding a path to bootstrap via Hugs would be a good step | 21:43:36 |
| emily | and yeah, having to keep Hugs working is part of the burden here... | 21:44:03 |
| emily | as C codebases unmaintained for 20 years are no fun to keep going | 21:44:20 |
| Alex | In reply to @emilazy:matrix.org
well AIUI the upstream build system either compiles the C blob or uses GHC right? Not necessarily: https://github.com/augustss/MicroHs?tab=readme-ov-file#bootstrapping-with-hugs
(I also delete the C blobs to be extra sure I don't accidentally use them.) | 21:45:29 |
| emily | ah. but that's a separate branch of MicroHs? | 21:46:21 |
| emily | seems like it'd be ideal for it to be merged with the main one but I guess worst case it's just another hop | 21:46:43 |
| Alex | Yes, it's another hop, but the MicroHs build is under 5min anyway, so I'm not concerned.
It's a good idea to build a stage 2 mhs anyway. | 21:53:37 |
| emily | I do worry a bit about the part where he says the resulting binaries are 10x slower than GHC. | 21:55:36 |
| emily | it's not exactly fast to bootstrap GHC to begin with | 21:55:49 |
| emily | but I guess targeted optimization work could be applied | 21:56:08 |
| 8 Sep 2025 |
|  romildo joined the room. | 21:04:44 |
