RE: Compiling faster

On 23 September 2004 12:42, George Russell wrote:

I think therefore the section "Sooner: producing a program more quickly"

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/sooner-faster-qu icker.html#SOONER

should recommend using --make to compile lots of files at a time. And by the way, that might not be a bad idea for GHC itself ...

--make might also need a lot more memory (.hi files are cleverly demand-loaded when compiling a single module), and it also leaves you rather exposed to space leaks in GHC itself. It can also be slower when only re-compiling a small number of modules in a large program. However, nevertheless it *is* better in many cases. I'll add something to that section of the docs. Cheers, Simon