Changes between Version 37 and Version 38 of Status/May09

Timestamp:

05/04/09 01:18:43 (4 years ago)

Author:

simonpj

Comment:

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Status/May09

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  * Max Bolingbroke has revised and simplified his '''Dynamically Loaded Plugins''' summer of code project, and we (continue to) plan to merge it into 6.12.  Part of this is already merged: a new, modular system for [wiki:Annotations user-defined '''annotations'''], rather like Java or C# attributes.  These attributes are persisted into interface files, can be examined and created by plugins, or by GHC API clients.
 
- * John Dias has continued work on '''rewriting GHC's backend'''.  You can find an [wiki:Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGenPipeline overview of the new architecture] on the wiki.  He and Norman and Simon wrote [http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/c-- Dataflow optimisation made simple, a paper about the dataflow optimisation framework] that the new back end embodies.  Needless to say, the act of writing the paper has made us re-design the framework, so at the time of writing it still isn't on GHC's main compilation path.  But it will be.
+ * John Dias has continued work on '''rewriting GHC's backend'''.  You can find an [wiki:Commentary/Compiler/NewCodeGenPipeline overview of the new architecture] on the wiki.  He and Norman and Simon wrote [http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/c-- Dataflow optimisation made simple], a paper about the dataflow optimisation framework that the new back end embodies.  Needless to say, the act of writing the paper has made us re-design the framework, so at the time of writing it still isn't on GHC's main compilation path.  But it will be.
 
  * '''Shared Libraries''', are inching ever closer to being completed.  Duncan Coutts has taken up the reins and is pushing our shared library support towards a fully working state.  This project is supported by the IHG.