On 05/21/2015 05:36 PM, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > > On 21 May 2015, at 15:54, Bardur Arantsson wrote: > >> 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. > > Don't count on it. On our Windows desktop machines, fork/exec costs > approximately one third of a second, instead of the expected small number of > milliseconds or less. The reasons are unknown, but we suspect a > misconfigured anti-virus scanner (and for various company policy reasons we > are prohibited from doing the investigation that could confirm or deny this > hypothesis). >
Yeah, that sounds... broken. Regards, _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
