-Haskell home page at
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- http://www.haskell.org/
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-GHC's Web page lives at
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- http://www.haskell.org/ghc/
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- What's new
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-5.00 has been majorly revamped since the previous stable version, 4.08.2.
-This should be a stable release. Major changes since 4.08.2 are:
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- - An interactive system, similar in style to Hugs. You can interactively
- load and unload modules, run expressions, ask the types of things.
- Module dependencies are tracked and chased automatically.
- Combinations of compiled and interpreted modules may be used.
- All the GHC libraries are available in interactive mode, as are
- most of the Glasgow extensions to Haskell 98. Compilation in
- interactive mode (to bytecode) is about three times faster than
- compiling to object code.
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- - Batch compilation of multiple modules at once, with automatic
- dependency chasing. For large programs this can halve compilation
- times, and removes the need for Makefiles.
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- - Enhanced package (library) management system. Packages may be
- installed and removed from an installation using the ghc-pkg tool.
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- - Initial Unicode support - the Char type is now 31 bits.
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- - Sparc native code generator, giving much faster compilation on sparcs.
- (Native code generation for x86s has been available for a while).
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- - Improved heap profiling - you can restrict heap profiles
- by type, closure description, cost centre, and module.