On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Ian Lynagh <i...@well-typed.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 12:14:06PM -0500, Nicolas Frisby wrote: > > > > I've been trying to let a statically-linked compiler shares its > FastString > > table with plugins. > > Why not use a dynamically linked compiler? > My main concern with this option is having the plugins that need FastString support work with an out-of-the-box ghc. If my plugin's prerequisite is "first, go rebuild another copy of GHC", my plugin might as well not be a plugin. I'm still hoping for more responses to my other email on this topic, but it's starting to seem that having the out-of-the-box ghc be a dynamically link against libHSghc is not necessarily likely on all platforms that support Core plugins. Thanks.
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