External Core in binary format

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Tim

> Not if you want to parse Core emitted by the HEAD, since in the process
> of trying to get Core working, Aaron and I had to change the data types to
> reflect type system changes. We hope to have something checked in within a
> finite amount of time :-)

I know time is a bit variable, but is there any idea of when this
might be accomplished? Is there anything fundamental that is holding
you back? Something like writing Read/Show serialisation would take a
day at most, and give me everything I want. I realise that you are
going for something better, but the time/features trade-off is ever
present :)

The other question is whether there will be a small standalone library
called "GHC.Core" which lets a user load an abstract syntax tree out
of a file?

Thanks

Neil