| Dynamic linking has been a huge headache in GHC, and it's not clear that
| it's an overall improvement compared with the static linker. Now that
| 7.8 is out of the way, it's time to have a conversation about whether we
| want to do dynamic linking again for 7.10, or revert to static linking.
I echo this. Dynamic linking has had many un-anticipated costs and it is still very far from sorted out. It originally felt like a Fantastic Idea to give up our own linker and adopt the system linker, but it now feels to me like a black hole, endlessly sucking effort and increasing complexity.
My viewpoint is highly un-informed about details; I just watch the traffic going by. And of course it does have benefits that doubtless generate less traffic.
Simon
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| > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Simon Peyton Jones
| > mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com> wrote:
| >
| > As Austin has told us, there's a draft of the *GHC Status Report
| for
| > the HCAR*, here:____
| >
| > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May14____
| >
| > Have we missed out something you have been working hard on? Do
| > take a moment to add a bullet in an appropriate place (it's a
| > wiki). I'd like to be sure that we are giving credit to all the
| > appropriate people, so please help us fix that too. GHC is a team
| > effort.____
| >
| > Deadline is 1 May I think.____
| >
| > Thanks____
| >
| > Simon____
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