Loading GHC into GHCi (and ghcid)

[Evan Laforge]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 2:48 PM, Bartosz Nitka <niteria at gmail.com> wrote:
> What version of GHC are you using?
> There have been some significant improvements like
> https://phabricator.haskell.org/rGHCb8fec6950ad99cbf11cd22698b8d5ab35afb828f,
> that only just made it into GHC 8.4.

I did in fact notice a very nice speedup in 8.4, this explains it.
Finally I know who to thank for it!  Thank you very much for that fix,
it really makes a difference.

Are there more goodies in the 8.0.2 facebook branch, or have they all
made it into 8.4?

As loaded modules seem to consume a lot of memory, I've considered
trying GHC.Compact on them, but haven't looked into what that would
entail.  Have you considered something like that?