-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote: > Am Dienstag, 30. September 2008 00:18 schrieb Duncan Coutts: >> Yet another reason for getting dynamic linking / shared libs for Haskell >> packages working reliably on all platforms. > > You mean shared libraries without the opportunity to inline library code? > This would result in a huge performance loss, I think.
Usually _mild_ performance loss, in exchange for major code-size savings, I would think. C obviously has worked quite fine under exactly this restraint (though C implementations obviously aren't built to take as great advantage of inlining library code as Haskell may be). Just because there's an important loss in value, doesn't mean there's not a significant net gain for some needs. Dynamically linked libs in Haskell have obvious benefits, as well as obvious drawbacks. - -- But hey, YMMV. Just my opinion. Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI5RP37M8hyUobTrERAgn3AJ9JfWDY269PiRyh2hei1uH6W+dJ2wCfY/YG ztVcGYvH1+pQqG/fryr+YPw= =ekJT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
