Re: dll-split

2017-08-30 Thread Ara Adkins
That’s a very good point, and should be a good solution for now. _ara > On 30 Aug 2017, at 18:28, Phyx wrote: > > That's certainly a possibility, though note that this is only an issue for > compiling stage2, not end user programs. > Since it's only for compiling ghc we

Re: dll-split

2017-08-30 Thread Phyx
That's certainly a possibility, though note that this is only an issue for compiling stage2, not end user programs. Since it's only for compiling ghc we don't have to include it in the bindist so license would be less of an issue I think. I'll modify the scripts to pull it automatically when I

Re: dll-split

2017-08-30 Thread Ara Adkins
With a hit like that I think it should at least be highly publicised that it can cause huge hits to compilation time. I would support bundling the executable if it has a compatible license. _ara On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Ryan Scott wrote: > Thanks for putting so

Re: dll-split

2017-08-30 Thread Ryan Scott
Thanks for putting so much effort into this work, Tamar! > When I do turn it on, by default you will get a large ~45min hit in compile > time. Yikes, that's really bad! Bad enough that I have to wonder: would it be worth including genlib among the other executables that we bundle with GHC?