I was reviewing some history here, and I realized that the GHCJS folks had previous implemented this: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2015-November/010478.html What ever happened to this line of work? Does remote GHCi subsume it? Edward Excerpts from Simon Marlow's message of 2015-11-17 02:10:55 -0800:
Hi folks - I've been thinking about changing the way we run interpreted code so that it would be run in a separate process. It turns out this has quite a few benefits, and would let us kill some of the really awkward hacks we have in GHC to work around problems that arise because we're running interpreted code and the compiler on the same runtime.
I summarised the idea here: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/RemoteGHCi
I'd be interested to hear if anyone has any thoughts around this, particularly if doing this would make your life difficult in some way. Are people relying on dynCompileExpr for anything?
Cheers, Simon