[Haskell-cafe] Re: Non-technical Haskell question

[Philippa Cowderoy]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Jules Bean wrote:

>
> On 6 Dec 2004, at 18:48, John Goerzen wrote:
>
> > Presently, ghc will only link in a .o component of a .a file if symbols
> > from that .o file are actually used in the final executable.  This is
> > the motiviation for the split-objs feature; to reduce the size of
> > executables that use quite large .o files.
> >
> > In my experience, most .o files are not that large.  Does that agree
> > with your experience?
> >
>
> If that is the case, then it already is 'smart linking' and I stand
> corrected. Unless the granularity of the .o files is too large, of
> course...
>

It is - you get one .o per module.

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