Hello Magnus, Saturday, September 27, 2008, 3:48:27 PM, you wrote:
> AFAIU you are saying that the linker is reaching into the module's .a > file, pulling out the .o file, and then reaching into that .o file to > pull out an individual function's ASM code. I believe that's a bit more > than regular C linkers would do. compiled haskell module represented in ghc as a .hi+.o files, installed libraries as a .a plus a set of .h files (you may find lots of .hi in your ghc installation) afaiu, .hi files contains parts f source haskell code in some partially compiled form. ability to perform inter-module and inter-library inlining is a key to efficiency of ghc-compiled programs, specially for polymorphic functions. when you use such functions as head, you are definitely got them inlined -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
