> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:50:56AM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > > More fun with Haskell-in-the-large: linking time has become the > > > main bottleneck in our development cycle. The standard solution > > > would be to use an incremental linker, but it seems that gnu does > > > not yet support this:-| > > > > Hmm, I've never heard of linking being a bottleneck. > > The runtime loader stuff I'm working on[1] takes around 10 > seconds to compile ... and 3 minutes to link it with libHSbase > and libHSrts. (This is on a 500MHz PIII). Linking is a huge > bottleneck once you start linking in the Haskell libraries; ld > takes up enormous amounts of CPU time resolving symbols, > I think. > > 1. > http://www.algorithm.com.au/wiki/hacking/haske> ll.ghc_runtime_loading
3 minutes???!! I just downloaded your example code, did './configure && make' and the link step took about 3 seconds. This is also on a 500MHz PIII. Are you sure you're not getting libHSbase over NFS? There may be something that ld is doing that causes a lot of NFS traffic. Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users