Scripts merged for easily loading and running GHC in GHCi, for fast development iterations

[Matthew Pickering]

In practice, how much memory does this use?

I find that with 4gb of memory that it is unusable and hard to kill.
Perhaps we should add some sort of warning to the page about this.

Cheers

Matt

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 11:12 PM, Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Now that [D5015] is merged (thanks, monoidal!), -fobject-code no
> longer needs to be provided manually.  This also means that you can
> run [ghcid] directly in the root of the repo without any arguments.  I
> have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/InGhci to
> use the simpler invocations.
>
> [D5015]: https://phabricator.haskell.org/D5015
> [ghcid]: https://github.com/ndmitchell/ghcid
>
> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 1:03 AM, Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thanks a bunch for updating the wiki page, Artem!  It was on my todo
>> list, but it's been a rather busy week.  I've added an update
>> mentioning that it will be possible to run "ghcid" directly without
>> args once D5105 is merged.
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 12:55 AM, Artem Pelenitsyn
>> <a.pelenitsyn at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I added this to the wiki. It would be nice to have a wrapper similar to
>>> `run.sh` but for starting ghcid, I believe.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best wishes,
>>> Artem
>>>
>>> On Sun, 29 Jul 2018 at 10:41 Matthew Pickering <matthewtpickering at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can you please update the wiki page?
>>>>
>>>> https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/InGhci
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 6:18 AM, Michael Sloan <mgsloan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > Hello GHC developers!
>>>> >
>>>> > Now that D4904 and D4986 are merged, if you have recently built GHC
>>>> > then you can use "./utils/ghc-in-ghci/run.sh -fobject-code" to load
>>>> > GHC into GHCi (throwing on a "-j8" helps too).  For me, this makes
>>>> > development far more pleasant, as often I can make a change and try it
>>>> > out in only 15 or 20 seconds.  Thanks to Csongor Kiss for writing the
>>>> > initial ghci script, and Matthew Pickering for posting about it to the
>>>> > mailinglist, as otherwise I probably wouldn't have known about it.
>>>> >
>>>> > I wrote a blog post about the topic on my new blog:
>>>> > http://www.mgsloan.com/posts/ghcinception/
>>>> >
>>>> > Once D5015 is merged, the explicit "-fobject-code" won't be needed.
>>>> > Once https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/15454 is addressed, it
>>>> > might not be needed at all, leading to even faster loading ;)
>>>> >
>>>> > Happy ghci-ing!
>>>> > -Michael
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