SV: [Haskell-cafe] RFC: "Native -XCPP" Proposal

[Bardur Arantsson]

On 05/21/2015 12:31 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> Hi Yitzchak,
> 
> On 2015-05-21 at 11:25:46 +0200, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Bardur Arantsson wrote:
>>> I don't see any need for an option. Just bundle cpphs together with GHC
>>> and build/use it as an external program. AFAICT this has absolutely no
>>> licensing implications for GHC, derived from GHC or anything compiled
>>> with GHC.
>>
>> Agreed, that would work. But I thought that the idea was that we wanted
>> it actually integrated into GHC.
> 
> That would be the preferred way from a technical standpoint, as it would
> avoid fork/exec and make it easier to integrate the CPP-phase tighter
> into the lexer/parser.

fork/exec is almost certainly going to be negligable compared to the
overall compile time anyway. It's not like GHC is fast enough for it to
matter.