17 May
2008
17 May
'08
4:33 a.m.
Hi, I've made an experiment compiling ghc-api with --split-objs. To summarize, while this is not worthwhile for the compiler itself, it could be a huge win for plugin libraries. A fairly detailed description can be found here, http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/README.ghc-api-test A tarball with the examples and auxiliary files is at http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/ghc-api-test.tar.bz2 Open questions: - How much work would it to do this within the ghc build? - Maybe users that only need the parser can win as well? Haddock comes to mind here. In any case, this is food for thought, I hope. Enjoy, Bertram