FS#24853 - [ghc] dynamically link the ghc binary

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Patrick Palka (orlandu63) - Friday, 24 June 2011, 00:29 GMT
Last edited by Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai) - Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 15:41 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai)
Rémy Oudompheng (remyoudompheng)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 3
Private No

Details

Dynamically link the GHC binary by setting GhcDynamic = YES in the build.mk script. This will allow sharing of GHC libs between processes, greatly reducing memory usage when having multiple active ghci sessions.
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Closed by  Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai)
Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 15:41 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/tick et/3658

The dynamic linking doesn't even seem to be complete and they updated the milestone to 7.6.1.
Comment by Vesa Kaihlavirta (vegai) - Wednesday, 23 November 2011, 15:02 GMT
Can you confirm this by a citation/source? I'd rather steer away from dynamic linking if it's not certain that it helps.

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