[Haskell-cafe] Implementing Mathematica

[Ketil Malde]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 08:46 +0100, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

> | $ ghc htrace.hs -o htrace
> | $ ghc -O2 htrace.hs -o htrace
> | compilation IS NOT required

> Yes, I think it's a bug.  GHC should really compare the flags used
> last time with the flags used this time [...]

As an (easier) alternative, I would find it in line with my expectations
if GHC always recompiled in the absence of --make, and recompiled based
on time stamps in the presence of --make.

-k