Changes in GHC API modularity with the "Encode shape information in PMOracle" MR

[Shayne Fletcher]

Getting you some raw data to look at but first results indicate at least
that `DsMonad` is pulling in `nativeGen`, `llvmGen`, `stgToCmm`,
`simplCore`, `hieFile` and so on.

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 12:05 PM Shayne Fletcher <shayne.fletcher at daml.com>
wrote:

> Seeing what I can do.
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 10:31 AM Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Shayne,
>>
>> out of curiosity, could you find out which of the three modules DsMonad,
>> FamInst and TcSimplify lead to the blowup? If it's not too much of a
>> hassle, that is.
>> These are the only imports of PmOracle that aren't already exported from
>> ghc-lib-parser.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sebastian
>>
>> Am Mo., 16. Sept. 2019 um 22:38 Uhr schrieb Shayne Fletcher <
>> shayne.fletcher at daml.com>:
>>
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 5:23 PM Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Shayne,
>>>>
>>>> Sorry to hear that! We didn't consider modularity at all and I would be
>>>> happy to try to refactor in a way that would allow `ghc-lib-parser` to be
>>>> properly separated again.
>>>> I'm fairly certain that I didn't directly touch anything parser
>>>> related, but apparently the new cyclic import of PmOracle within TcRnTypes
>>>> (which is also exposed from `ghc-lib-parser`) pulled in the other half of
>>>> GHC.
>>>> I'll see if I can fix that tomorrow, if only by extracting a separate
>>>> `Types`-style module.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That sounds awesome. Tremendous. Thank-you! Please feel free to reach
>>> out to me if there's anything I can do to help your analysis[*]!
>>>
>>> [*] For the record, the procedure for calculating the `ghc-lib-parser`
>>> modules is a little complicated by there needing to be some generated
>>> equivalents of `.hsc` files present for this to work but the procedure is
>>> at the end of the day just `ghc -M` invoked over `Parser.hs`.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Sebastian
>>>>
>>>
>>> Fingers crossed and all the best!
>>>
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