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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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* 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 a few varieties of
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Unix, and a few different processor architectures. There are detailed
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instructions for porting GHC to a new platform. Which doesn't work.
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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 most currently supported
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platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to
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bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled
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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 minimal range of libraries, but a wide range of
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additional libraries are available as separate packages, including
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the full set of the Haskell Platform.
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