On Jul 13, 2009, at 10:53 PM, Marc Weber wrote:
Yes, it is a known limitation. It ought to be documented somewhere.
There are two problems:
1. GHC is not thread-safe. [...]
2. There is only one RTS linker with a single symbol table. [...]
Are there already bug tracker items for these
On 12/07/2009 16:49, Daniel Gorín wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to use the GHC API to have several instances of GHC's
interpreter loaded simultaneously; each with its own loaded modules,
etc. However, this doesn't seem to work well when two instances have
loaded modules with the same name. I'm including
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
Hi
I'm trying to use the GHC API to have several instances of GHC's
interpreter loaded simultaneously; each with its own loaded modules,
etc. However, this doesn't seem to work well when two instances have
loaded modules with the same name. I'm including the code of a
small(ish) example
On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:49:15PM +0200, Daniel Gorín wrote:
Hi
I'm trying to use the GHC API to have several instances of GHC's
interpreter loaded simultaneously; [snip]
Is this possible now?
6-12 month ago it was not possible to run multiple ghc threads
within the same instance due to
