[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] Real life examples

[Keean Schupke]

Sven Panne wrote:

>
> You can see that every little detail is exported here. This is extremely
> important for good performance and I happily trade separate compilation
> (in the traditional sense) for this. Note that 'ghc --make' easily 
> handles
> the recompilation issue for your own programs.
>
> Libraries where you want some kind of binary backwards compatibility are
> another story. Here you have to trade (just like C!) efficiency against
> flexibility, e.g. by writing some kind of facade compiled without -O.
>
Seems like a reasonable trade, presumably you can use noinline to stop
this happening (even with -O2) if you want to produce a stable binary
interface (like you want for plug-ins).

I assume this does not affect  the ability to replace Storable when 
compiling from
source though?

    Keean.