On Monday 27 February 2012, 18:56:47, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
It's nice if there is a way for experts to load .o files in GHCi, e.g., for the rare case where the performance difference for some specific module is so great that you can't work effectively interactively in some other module that imports it.
Is that so rare? For me it's pretty standard that the core modules _have_ to be loaded as object files, interpreting them would make things orders of magnitude slower (100× - 1000×), they'd be unusably slow. So in my opinion it's absolutely essential that modules can be loaded as object files.
There could be something to set in .ghci for people who do like that behavior all the time, perhaps.
And that too, if it's no longer the default.
But it should not be the default.
But with it not being the default, I could live well.