[Haskell-cafe] Re: Weird ghci behaviour?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007, Jules Bean wrote:

> Anecdotes have little value, but for what it's worth: in around 5 years
> of ghc use, I have never, not even once, wanted to load the module I was
> working on in its compiled form. I've occasionally noticed that
> dependent modules get loaded quickly from their .o's and thought that
> was handy, but that's all. During that time I have many times been
> annoyed that a .hs file which I load from the command line or via :load
> (or via C-c C-l in emacs mode) get loaded in interpreted form :)

I found compiled modules useful in GHCi when using computation intensive
functions, like those for signal processing.