GHC API: memory usage of loaded modules

Thu Dec 15 15:45:58 UTC 2016

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 1:55 AM, Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's confusing to me because traditionally -dynamic is a link only
> flag, but ghc also uses it for building .o files... I assume because
> of the ghci loading thing.
>

There may also be some OS X specific behavior here; OS X doesn't like
static objects much, due to its PPC heritage (the PPC ABI pretty much
restricts "normal" position-dependent static objects to the kernel).

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