On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:50:56AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
More fun with Haskell-in-the-large: linking time has become the main bottleneck in our development cycle. The standard solution would be to use an incremental linker, but it seems that gnu does not yet support this:-|
Hmm, I've never heard of linking being a bottleneck.
The runtime loader stuff I'm working on[1] takes around 10
seconds to compile ... and 3 minutes to link it with libHSbase
and libHSrts. (This is on a 500MHz PIII). Linking is a huge
bottleneck once you start linking in the Haskell libraries; ld
takes up enormous amounts of CPU time resolving symbols,
I think.
1. http://www.algorithm.com.au/wiki/hacking/haskell.ghc_runtime_loading
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