On 05/21/2015 12:31 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
Hi Yitzchak,
On 2015-05-21 at 11:25:46 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
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Bardur Arantsson wrote:
I don't see any need for an option. Just bundle cpphs together with GHC and build/use it as an external program. AFAICT this has absolutely no licensing implications for GHC, derived from GHC or anything compiled with GHC.
Agreed, that would work. But I thought that the idea was that we wanted it actually integrated into GHC.
That would be the preferred way from a technical standpoint, as it would avoid fork/exec and make it easier to integrate the CPP-phase tighter into the lexer/parser.
fork/exec is almost certainly going to be negligable compared to the overall compile time anyway. It's not like GHC is fast enough for it to matter.