29 Aug
2011
29 Aug
'11
8:24 p.m.
On 30 August 2011 01:16, Evan Laforge
Interesting, maybe I misremembered? Or maybe there was some other guy who was trying to parallelize?
Just out of curiosity, what benefit does a thread-safe ghc provide? I know ghc api users have go to some bother to not call re-entrantly... what neat stuff could we do with a re-entrant ghc? Could it eventually lead to an internally parallel ghc or are there deeper reasons it's hard to parallelize compilation? That would be really cool, if possible. In fact, I don't know of any parallel compilers.
Yes, the plan was to eventually have a parallel --make mode.