whole program optimization

[Tim Chevalier]

On 12/24/07, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
> The GHC API ought to make this relatively easy, but sadly doesn't at the moment.  What you'd want:
>
> - read in each module in turn, typecheck, desugar, perform modest simplification, and keep the resulting Core bindings

The API can do this already :-)

> - now glom all those bindings together and optimize
> - code generate, write out a .o file
>

I'm working on this part. In fact, I'm almost ready to check it in --
at least for the single-module case.

Cheers,
Tim

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