Compiling binaries of bytecode: ever been considered?

Brandon Allbery allbery.b at gmail.com
Mon Nov 4 15:16:36 UTC 2019


Lots of people have had such ideas… until they looked at the bco
implementation. Consider yourself warned.

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 9:02 AM Andreas Klebinger <klebinger.andreas at gmx.at>
wrote:

> I've heard the idea come up once or twice. But I'm not aware of any
> efforts going further than that.
>
>
>
> Christopher Done schrieb am 04.11.2019 um 14:59:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was just wondering: has a compiler output mode ever been considered
> > that would dump bytecode to a file, dynamic link to the ghc runtime,
> > and then on start-up that program would just interpret the bytecode
> > like ghci does?
> >
> > The purpose would be simply faster compile-and-restart times.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris
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