Fat interface files?

[Moritz Angermann]

Just to make sure we are aware of all the ongoing efforts. We've been
working on ebedding Core into interface files as well.
Josh has updated the Wiki page here
https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/Extensible-Interface-Files.

Cheers,
 Moritz

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 12:06 AM Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Hi Edward,
>
> While chatting with the ghc-ide folks recently I realized that it would
> be useful to be able to preserve Core such that compilation can be
> restarted (e.g. to be pushed down the bytecode pipeline to evaluate TH
> splices).
>
> As I recall this is precisely what you implemented in your "fat
> interface file" work. Do you recall what the state of this work was? Do
> you have a branch with last-known-good work? Do you recall any tricky
> questions that remained outstanding?
>
> Cheers,
>
> - Ben
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