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 <ryan.gl.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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? Fortunately, us GHC developers have the foresight to know > that we should install genlib, but I imagine less informed Windows > users probably won't get the memo and will start to wonder why > compilation became so slow all of a sudden. > > Ryan S. > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs >
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