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Below is a short list of things we hope to tackle soon.  We welcome
prodding, cajoling, large sums of money, offers of holidays in warm
climates...  Umm, excuse me, I got carried away....

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\item[Compilation speed:]
This is still our \#1 priority.  (Actually, we {\em have} saved a lot
on compilation time since~0.16; however, we've spent a goodly chunk of
our winnings.)

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\item[Revised I/O scheme:] We've {\em finally} figured out the right
way to do this ``state'' stuff; see the Launchbury/Peyton Jones ``Lazy
Functional State Threads'' paper (draft; check
\tr{ghc/docs/abstracts/abstracts93.tex}).

Simultaneously, the Haskell~1.3 I/O proposal is coming along.  We hope
to use the former to do the latter, if you know what I mean.

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\item[More with unfoldings:]
And our new simplifier.  Both of these new pieces of machinery are
still a bit ``raw.''  (The reason we don't quote performance numbers
is because we haven't collected any yet.)

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\item[Specialised instances:]  Tedious and boring.

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\item[More with ``semi-tagging'':]
(which we haven't done much with yet...) and other code-generator-ish
hacks.  [It depends how close we let Simon get to the code.]

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\item[More tuning:]
We're {\em generally} happy with the time/space behaviour of Haskell
programs compiled with this system.  But there's always work to do.

We still welcome a copy of any Haskell program for which a competing
compiler generates better code.  We want to stamp out these
unfortunate anomalies!
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