Warp wrote:

>   With all the talk about fancy new languages which are so super-efficient
> and so super-fast and so super-secure and whatever, I not seen too much
> discussion about one thing: What about dynamically loadable libraries?

GHC [currently the best Haskell compiler] used to be able to compile 
DLLs. At some point that code path bitrotted and stopped working; I'm 
not sure what the current status is.

According to the old documentation, it used to be a case of throwing a 
commond line switch, and your compiled program would call DLL versions 
of the Haskell libraries rather than being statically linked to them. 
You don't change any Haskell code, it's just a compiler switch.

Needless to say, if you have a few dozen Haskell programs, not having a 
dozen copies of the Prelude is something of a win. (!)

I'll see if I can figure out what the current status of this feature 
is... I'm curios myself.

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