[Haskell-cafe] RE: [Haskell] Top Level <-

Sittampalam, Ganesh ganesh.sittampalam at credit-suisse.com
Wed Sep 3 05:46:03 EDT 2008


Ashley Yakeley wrote:

> I think it's bad design for a dynamic loader to load a module more 
> than once anyway.

In compiled code module boundaries don't necessarily exist. So how
do you relink the loaded code so that it points to the unique copy
of the module?

> It's a waste of memory, for a start. We already 
> know that hs-plugins won't for modules it already loaded itself
> (apparently it crashes the RTS), and I suspect it doesn't at all.

It crashes the RTS of the plugins loader, which is based on ghci, which
is built around loading modules independently. I believe there's a
separate RTS running at the top level of the program which has no
knowledge of the plugin loader.

Ganesh

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