Dynamic libraries by default and GHC 7.8

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Simon Marlow <marlowsd at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 05/12/12 15:17, Brandon Allbery wrote:
>
>> Probably none; on most platforms you're actually generating different
>> code (dynamic libraries require generation of position-independent
>>
> Sure there's a lot of differences in the generated code, but inside GHC
> these differences only appear at the very last stage of the pipeline,
> native code generation (or LLVM).  All the stages up to that can be shared,
> which accounts for roughly 80% of compilation time (IIRC).
>

I was assuming it would be difficult to separate those stages of the
internal compilation pipeline out, given previous discussions of how said
pipeline works.  (In particular I was under the impression saving/restoring
state in the pipeline to rerun the final phase with multiple code
generators was not really possible, and multithreading them concurrently
even less so.)

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