And on 32 bit Linux, which apparently is known to suffer from dynamic... Though from 20ms to 100ms is more than 30% penalty.


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:16 AM, dag.odenhall@gmail.com <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:
That was with GHC 7.4.1, I should add. I didn't measure overall performance difference, only the time to finish a command-line invocation.



On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:11 AM, dag.odenhall@gmail.com <dag.odenhall@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Ian Lynagh <ian@well-typed.com> wrote:
This has some advantages and some disadvantages, so we need to make a
decision about what we want to do in GHC 7.8.

When I built my CLI app with dynamic linking, the time to run and complete a command went from 20ms to 100ms, which is particularly noticeable when used via its bash completions which call the program to provide completions.