runhaskell a parallel program

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On May 7, 2009, at 06:27 , Neil Mitchell wrote:
>>> If however I run it with runhaskell Test.hs +RTS -N2 I get told the
>>> -N2 flag isn't supported. Is there a way to runhaskell a program on
>>
>> As a workaround you could use 'ghc -e main foo.hs +RTS -N2'.
>
> That works great :-) Perhaps this trick should be documented? I
> thought runhaskell was just sugar over ghc -e, so couldn't it share
> the same mechanism?

I think the problem is that runhaskell invokes the runghc executable  
in the GHC libdir, which is itself a non-threaded Haskell program and  
therefore consumes the RTS options.

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH


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