On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Gwern Branwen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:gwern0@gmail.com">gwern0@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Jeremy Shaw &lt;<a href="mailto:jeremy@n-heptane.com">jeremy@n-heptane.com</a>&gt; wrote:<br>
&gt; fps is what we now call bytestring. Alas, hsplugins is dead. hsplugins is<br>
&gt; useful, but needs to be rewritten for modern GHC :(<br>
&gt; - jeremy<br>
<br>
</div>I never looked into hsplugins too carefully. Did it offer anything<br>
that Hint doesn&#39;t now offer?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The ability to load and unload compiled code in a running application? Perhaps hint offers that now ?</div><div><br></div><div>Specifically, I believe you could have a function &#39;foo&#39;, and you could load a new version of &#39;foo&#39; while the programming was running, and the running code would start using the new version instead.. I can&#39;t quite remember the details though. &#39;runtime linking&#39; might be a term to describe it..</div>
<div><br></div><div>- jeremy </div></div>