> Yes, it is a known limitation. It ought to be documented somewhere. > > There are two problems: > > 1. GHC is not thread-safe. There are some items of global state (the > NameCache and the PackageInterfaceTable) that should be protected. > It's not a trivial matter to do this - we had a hacky solution for > the parallel compilation experiment we did a while back, but it > wasn't finished. > > You could workaround this by using a mutex and only invoking GHC > API operations in one thread at a time. > > 2. There is only one RTS linker with a single symbol table. This is > the problem you ran into. There's no workaround that I'm aware > of.
Are there already bug tracker items for these two problems? I've tried finding them but didn't succeed. This would be a fast way to document this issue even if its unlikely to be fixed soon. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
