Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: [snip]
It would require to keep bodies of all polymorphic functions in a form allowing instantiation in different modules. For example ghc already requires too much memory (even a hundred MB for large modules), and it leads to code bloat, so in the current state of technology it's not advisable to always compile out polymorphism. [snip] I'll bet Marcin a pint (if he wants) that in 10 years time you will need 1GB of virtual memory just to run the latest version of Windows out of the box. How Microsoft will manage to use all that memory, I don't know (will we have irritating pop-up windows showing videos of wizards telling us how to save Explorer settings?), but then 10 years ago I would have found it difficult to conceive of a desktop computer needing 64MB.
The current GHC separate compilation strategy probably is advisable at the current time, given available constraints, but I don't think we should make language decisions on that basis.