External Core in binary format

[Tim Chevalier]

On 6/13/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :)
>

There is nothing fundamental that's holding us back; it's just a
matter of finding time (I'm moving out of state and starting grad
school, Aaron was busy finishing up the semester). I'm not sure
offhand why just doing Read/Show wouldn't work or didn't occur to us;
is there a reason why that wouldn't be straightforward? (Adding Aaron
to the CC list to see what he thinks.) It's probably just that we were
trying to do the Right Thing.

> 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?
>

I think there should be, but AFAIK there's nothing in that direction yet.

Cheers,
Tim

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