Mon, 1 Oct 2001 09:55:11 +0100, Simon Marlow pisze:

We don't have support for shared libraries under Unix at the moment. It has been investigated at various times in the past, and I believe the story is that we couldn't do it without at least losing some performance (more performance loss than you get from compiling C into a shared library).

There is also a big problem of binary incompatibility between different versions of ghc, and dependence on the exact version of modules our package depends on. Dynamic libraries work for C because C has a very stable ABI. Also it's easy to maintain binary compatibility in libraries. I'm afraid that cross-module optimizations of ghc make dynamic libraries nearly impractical. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk * qrczak@knm.org.pl http://qrczak.ids.net.pl/ \__/ ^^ SYGNATURA ZASTÊPCZA QRCZAK