On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:51 AM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvrie...@gmail.com > wrote:
> Performance isn't (my) motivation for avoiding fork/exec (and the > equivalent on Win32) but rather avoiding the added complexity of > marshalling/IPC with fork/exec, as opposed to simply calling into a > native Haskell function and crossing process boundaries and having to > deal with the various things that can go wrong with the additional > moving parts you encounter when controlling an external process. So this > would IMO simplify code paths, and moreover I'd expect opportunities to > actually make the Haskell cpphs API richer (in case it isn't already) > and more tailored to GHC's lexer/parser pipeline and error-reporting. Don't you still have to support -pgmF? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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