<div dir="ltr"><div>That's certainly a possibility, though note that this is only an issue for compiling stage2, not end user programs.</div><div>Since it's only for compiling ghc we don't have to include it in the bindist so license would be less of an issue I think.</div><div><br></div><div>I'll modify the scripts to pull it automatically when I submit the rest of the patches.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Tamar</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:25 PM Ara Adkins <<a href="mailto:me@ara.io">me@ara.io</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. </div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>_ara</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Ryan Scott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com" target="_blank">ryan.gl.scott@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks for putting so much effort into this work, Tamar!<br>
<br>
> When I do turn it on, by default you will get a large ~45min hit in compile time.<br>
<br>
Yikes, that's really bad! Bad enough that I have to wonder: would it<br>
be worth including genlib among the other executables that we bundle<br>
with GHC? Fortunately, us GHC developers have the foresight to know<br>
that we should install genlib, but I imagine less informed Windows<br>
users probably won't get the memo and will start to wonder why<br>
compilation became so slow all of a sudden.<br>
<br>
Ryan S.<br>
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