[Haskell-cafe] Re: How to decrease ghc link time

[Georg Sauthoff]

Simon Marlow <simonmarhaskell at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

> Georg Sauthoff wrote:
>> I am a bit unhappy with the link time of the project (i.e. the time ghc
>> needs to link everyting).
 
>> The project consinst of ~60 Haskell and ~25 foreign files.
[..]

> Make sure everything being linked is on the local file system (or use remote 
> filesystems that can be cached locally).

thanks for the advice! Currently I am using NFS ... 

> GHC itself links in 2-3 seconds here on an x86_64/Linux machine, which I think 
> is pretty reasonable.  Windows is much slower though.

Yes, that sounds ok, currently the project needs 6-7 seconds over NFS
(under Solaris) ...

Best regards
Georg Sauthoff