[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to decrease ghc link time

Georg Sauthoff wrote:

well, I work with a Haskell project which I regulary compile with ghc.

I am a bit unhappy with the link time of the project (i.e. the time ghc needs to link everyting).

The project consinst of ~60 Haskell and ~25 foreign files. Some parts of the project are organized like a 'cluster', i.e. the foreign part has only one function, which is used from Haskell-Code.

What could I do to improve the link time?

Make sure everything being linked is on the local file system (or use remote filesystems that can be cached locally). GHC itself links in 2-3 seconds here on an x86_64/Linux machine, which I think is pretty reasonable. Windows is much slower though. Cheers, Simon