#16190: Speed up handling of large String literals -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: hsyl20 | Owner: (none) Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 8.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by hsyl20): @simonpj I will add a note for this one before submitting a MR. @hvr Yes. With the new approach there is no interaction at all as we don't perform any substitution in Core anymore. Whenever the NCG has to embed a big chunk of bytes, it can use the ".incbin" technique. If we add literals that use `ByteArray`, we can easily dump them into a file too, whatever their actual contents is: big `ByteArray`s are already pinned by GHC so we just have to `write` them by using their address and size. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/16190#comment:9 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler