- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.01
+ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 3.02
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We are pleased to announce a new release of the Glasgow Haskell
-Compiler (GHC), version 3.01. The source distribution is freely
+Compiler (GHC), version 3.02. The source distribution is freely
available via the World-Wide Web and through anon. FTP; details below.
Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language; the
+ What's new
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-GHC 3.01 is a source-only release. Major news items:
+GHC 3.02 is a source-only release. Major news items:
- * Lots of bug-fixes for the mult-parameter type class support.
+ * A new specialiser,
+ * Many bugs fixed, including several performance-related ones,
+ * A new unsafeCoerce# primitive.
- * Re-organisation of libraries, and hslibs nuked. (see the
- release notes/documentation for the full story).
-
- * The User's Guide is now in SGML, and the literate tools are
- no longer required to format any of the documentation in the
- tree, hence we removed them from the distribution.
+GHC 3.02 produces the fastest code since 0.29, but there's still
+plenty of tuning to do.
+ Mailing lists
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guide included in distribution gives a complete run-down of what-ports-work;
an on-line version can be found at
- http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.01/installation_guide/installing_toc.html
+ http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/fp/software/ghc/3.02/installation_guide/installing_toc.html
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