[Haskell-cafe] Hmm, what license to use?

[Micah Cowan]

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Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 30. September 2008 00:18 schrieb Duncan Coutts:
>> Yet another reason for getting dynamic linking / shared libs for Haskell
>> packages working reliably on all platforms.
> 
> You mean shared libraries without the opportunity to inline library code?  
> This would result in a huge performance loss, I think.

Usually _mild_ performance loss, in exchange for major code-size
savings, I would think. C obviously has worked quite fine under exactly
this restraint (though C implementations obviously aren't built to take
as great advantage of inlining library code as Haskell may be).

Just because there's an important loss in value, doesn't mean there's
not a significant net gain for some needs. Dynamically linked libs in
Haskell have obvious benefits, as well as obvious drawbacks.

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But hey, YMMV. Just my opinion.
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer.
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http://micah.cowan.name/
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