On 05/21/2015 12:31 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote: > Hi Yitzchak, > > On 2015-05-21 at 11:25:46 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote: > > [...] > >> Bardur Arantsson wrote: >>> I don't see any need for an option. Just bundle cpphs together with GHC >>> and build/use it as an external program. AFAICT this has absolutely no >>> licensing implications for GHC, derived from GHC or anything compiled >>> with GHC. >> >> Agreed, that would work. But I thought that the idea was that we wanted >> it actually integrated into GHC. > > That would be the preferred way from a technical standpoint, as it would > avoid fork/exec and make it easier to integrate the CPP-phase tighter > into the lexer/parser.
fork/exec is almost certainly going to be negligable compared to the overall compile time anyway. It's not like GHC is fast enough for it to matter. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
