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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and
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interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:
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initial import of ghc-5.04.3, which takes the "longest compilation
time" award from mozilla and gcc3
From Don Stewart <dons@cse.unsw.edu.au> with tweaks from me
(i386 only for the moment)
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The Glasgow Haskell Compiler is a robust, fully-featured, optimising
compiler for the functional programming language Haskell 98.
GHC compiles Haskell to either native code or C. It implements
numerous experimental language extensions to Haskell, including
concurrency, a foreign language interface, several type-system
extensions, exceptions, and so on. GHC comes with a generational
garbage collector, a space and time profiler, and a comprehensive
set of libraries.
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* GHC supports the entire Haskell 98 language plus a wide variety of
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extensions.
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* GHC works on several platforms including Windows and most varieties of
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Unix, and several different processor architectures. There are detailed
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instructions for porting GHC to a new platform.
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* GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module
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optimisation.
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* GHC compiles Haskell code either by using an intermediate C compiler
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(GCC), or by generating native code on some platforms. The interactive
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environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of
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mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
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* Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of
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heap profiling.
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* GHC comes with a wide range of libraries.
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