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9 <h1>Other Sources of Wisdom</h1>
11 Believe it or not, but there are other people besides you who are
12 masochistic enough to study the innards of the beast. Some of the have
13 been kind (or cruel?) enough to share their insights with us. Here is a
14 probably incomplete list:
18 href="http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/docs/StgSurvival.ps.gz">STG
19 Survival Sheet</a> has -- according to its header -- been written by
20 `a poor wee soul',<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> which
21 probably has been pushed into the torments of madness by the very
22 act of contemplating the inner workings of the STG runtime system.
23 This document discusses GHC's runtime system with a focus on
24 support for parallel processing (aka GUM).
25 <li>Instructions on <a
26 href="http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/PUBLICATIONS/extendGHC.html">Adding
27 an Optimisation Pass to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler</a>
28 have been compiled by <a
29 href="http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/">Olaf Chitil</a>.
30 Unfortunately, this document is already a little aged.
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39 <sup><a name="footnote1">1</a></sup>Usually reliable sources have it that
40 the poor soul in question is no one less than GUM hardcore hacker <a
41 href="http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~hwloidl/">Hans-Wolfgang Loidl</a>.
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