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+ <h1>Other Sources of Wisdom</h1>
+ <p>
+ Believe it or not, but there are other people besides you who are
+ masochistic enough to study the innards of the beast. Some of the have
+ been kind (or cruel?) enough to share their insights with us. Here is a
+ probably incomplete list:
+ <p>
+ <ul>
+
+ <li>The <a
+ href="http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~dsg/gph/docs/StgSurvival.ps.gz">STG
+ Survival Sheet</a> has -- according to its header -- been written by
+ `a poor wee soul',<sup><a href="#footnote1">1</a></sup> which
+ probably has been pushed into the torments of madness by the very
+ act of contemplating the inner workings of the STG runtime system.
+ This document discusses GHC's runtime system with a focus on
+ support for parallel processing (aka GUM).
+
+ <li>Instructions on <a
+ href="http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/PUBLICATIONS/extendGHC.html">Adding
+ an Optimisation Pass to the Glasgow Haskell Compiler</a>
+ have been compiled by <a
+ href="http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~olaf/">Olaf Chitil</a>.
+ Unfortunately, this document is already a little aged.
+
+ <li><a href="http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~apt/">Andrew Tolmach</a> has defined
+ <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/papers/core.ps.gz">an external
+ representation of
+ GHC's <em>Core</em> language</a> and also implemented a GHC pass
+ that emits the intermediate form into <code>.hcr</code> files. The
+ option <code>-fext-core</code> triggers GHC to emit Core code after
+ optimisation; in addition, <code>-fno-code</code> is often used to
+ stop compilation after Core has been emitted.
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+ </ul>
+
+ <p><hr><p>
+ <sup><a name="footnote1">1</a></sup>Usually reliable sources have it that
+ the poor soul in question is no one less than GUM hardcore hacker <a
+ href="http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~hwloidl/">Hans-Wolfgang Loidl</a>.
+
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