On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Gwern Branwen <gwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Jeremy Shaw <jer...@n-heptane.com> wrote: > > fps is what we now call bytestring. Alas, hsplugins is dead. hsplugins is > > useful, but needs to be rewritten for modern GHC :( > > - jeremy > > I never looked into hsplugins too carefully. Did it offer anything > that Hint doesn't now offer? > The ability to load and unload compiled code in a running application? Perhaps hint offers that now ? Specifically, I believe you could have a function 'foo', and you could load a new version of 'foo' while the programming was running, and the running code would start using the new version instead.. I can't quite remember the details though. 'runtime linking' might be a term to describe it.. - jeremy
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