[Template-haskell] Profiling with Template Haskell

[Simon Peyton-Jones]

| Now I know that profiling splicing doesn't make too much sense.  That
| is not what I wish to do though. I wish to profile the final
| executable.

Hmm, yes good point.  GHC compiles different binaries for profiled and
non-profiled execution.  Splice code that runs at compile time should
presumably be non-profiled (though I'm sure someone will want to profile
it too).  So TH should link non-profiled libraries at compile time, but
it's not clever enough to realise this. =20

I'll put this on my list of things to fix.  I'm in the middle of a heart
transplant on GHC at the moment, aimed at making a better substrate for
TH, so I may not fix this very quickly unless it's important to you.

It will mean that you'll have to compile your own program modules both
profiled and non-profiled -- the former for run-time and the latter for
compile time -- unless you keep compile-time code and run-time code in
separate modules.  That's annoying but I don't see an easy alternative.

Simon