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Opened Nov 19, 2018 by Ben Gamari@bgamari🐢Maintainer

Deprecate split objects

For several reasons (see below) we now generally recommend users use split sections instead of split objects.

Reasons:

  • SplitSections is quite a bit simpler
  • SplitSections may produce smaller binaries
  • SplitSections requires fewer assembler invocations, potentially improving compilation time (see #11285 (closed), #15051 (closed))
  • SplitSections is the approach used by most C compilers, meaning we may avoid edge cases that SplitObjects may turn up
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Reference: ghc/ghc#15919