Bertram Felgenhauer wrote:

I've made an experiment compiling ghc-api with --split-objs. To summarize, while this is not worthwhile for the compiler itself, it could be a huge win for plugin libraries.

A fairly detailed description can be found here, http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/README.ghc-api-test

A tarball with the examples and auxiliary files is at http://int-e.home.tlink.de/haskell/ghc-api-test.tar.bz2

Open questions: - How much work would it to do this within the ghc build? - Maybe users that only need the parser can win as well? Haddock comes to mind here.

In any case, this is food for thought, I hope.

I hope that for 6.10 we'll have shared libraries working on the major platforms, so split-objs should be a non-issue. For platforms where we don't have shared libraries, or perhaps if we want to have static-only distributions, then probably enabling split-objs for stage 2 would be a good idea, yes. Cheers, Simon