| Dynamic linking has been a huge headache in GHC, and it's not clear that | it's an overall improvement compared with the static linker. Now that | 7.8 is out of the way, it's time to have a conversation about whether we | want to do dynamic linking again for 7.10, or revert to static linking.
I echo this. Dynamic linking has had many un-anticipated costs and it is still very far from sorted out. It originally felt like a Fantastic Idea to give up our own linker and adopt the system linker, but it now feels to me like a black hole, endlessly sucking effort and increasing complexity. My viewpoint is highly un-informed about details; I just watch the traffic going by. And of course it does have benefits that doubtless generate less traffic. Simon | | | | > | > On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Simon Peyton Jones | > <simo...@microsoft.com <mailto:simo...@microsoft.com>> wrote: | > | > As Austin has told us, there's a draft of the *GHC Status Report | for | > the HCAR*, here:____ | > | > https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Status/May14____ | > | > Have we missed out something you have been working hard on? Do | > take a moment to add a bullet in an appropriate place (it's a | > wiki). I'd like to be sure that we are giving credit to all the | > appropriate people, so please help us fix that too. GHC is a team | > effort.____ | > | > Deadline is 1 May I think.____ | > | > Thanks____ | > | > Simon____ | > | > __ __ | > | > | > _______________________________________________ | > ghc-devs mailing list | > ghc-devs@haskell.org <mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org> | > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs | > | > | > | > | > _______________________________________________ | > ghc-devs mailing list | > ghc-devs@haskell.org | > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs | > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
