another wash compile problem

Frederik Eaton frederik at a5.repetae.net
Wed Aug 10 04:04:03 EDT 2005


> > Compiling a module which imports the 14 smaller modules takes much
> > less time than compiling the monolithic module - it's almost 5 times
> > faster (see below).
> 
> We've found the cause of this, and committed a fix.  The full
> HTMLMonda98.hs now compiles in 27 seconds for me, without optimisation
> (with 6.4 it is several minutes).  Let's hope the same issue is
> affecting other compilations too :-)

Wow! That's great.

Have you looked at how compile time varies with module size in the
fixed version?

Frederik


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