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- The Glasgow Haskell Compiler -- version 0.23
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-A new public release of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler is now available
-(GHC, version 0.23). Binaries and sources are freely available by
-anonymous FTP; details below.
-
-Haskell is "the" standard lazy functional programming language [see
-SIGPLAN Notices, May 1992]. The current language version is 1.2.
-
-GHC is a state-of-the-art batch compiler. For some idea of how it
-compares against the competition, see Pieter Hartel's recent revision
-of his FPCA '93 paper. Reference attached. Summary: we win!
-
-Highlights of what's new in GHC 0.23 since 0.22 (July 1994):
-
- * Faster compilation times (less than 10% slower than HBC if not
- using -O [on a Sun4]).
-
- * Produces 10-15% smaller executables. The main compiler binary is
- 1MB smaller than in 0.22.
-
- * >>> USER-VISIBLE changes <<< to "monadic I/O", because we are
- switching to the Haskell 1.3 *draft* I/O proposal. Please see the
- relevant bit of the User's Guide before doing monadic I/O things
- with 0.23.
-
- * Native-code generator for DEC Alphas.
-
- * A _selective_ lambda lifter.
-
- * The yacc-based parser is now called directly from Haskell.
-
- * Configuration changed enough that "the same old thing" *won't* work.
- Configuring binary distributions should be trivial now.
-
- * Quite a few bugs fixed; the usual big wad of code added.
-
-Please see the release notes for a complete discussion of What's New.
-
-Should you upgrade to 0.23? If you are a contented 0.22 user,
-probably not. Otherwise, probably yes.
-
-To run this release, you need a machine with 16+MB memory, GNU C
-(`gcc'), and `perl'. We have seen GHC work in *some* form or fashion
-on: Sun4s, DEC Alphas, Sun3s, NeXTs, DECstations, HP-PA and SGI boxes.
-Sun4s and Alphas, our development platforms, are fully supported; we
-distribute binaries for them. The release notes give a full
-what-ports-work report.
-
-Once you have the distribution, please follow the pointers in
-ghc/README to find all of the documentation in and about this release.
-NB: preserve modification times when un-tarring (no `m' option for
-tar, please)!
-
-We run mailing lists for GHC users and bug reports; to subscribe, send
-mail to glasgow-haskell-{users,bugs}-request@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk.
-Please send bug reports to glasgow-haskell-bugs.
-
-Simon Peyton Jones
-
-Dated: 94/12/21
-
-======================================================================
-Hartel reference:
-
-@techreport{Har94g,
- author = {P. H. Hartel},
- title = {Benchmarking implementations of lazy functional
- languages {II} -- Two years later},
- institution = {Dept. of Comp. Sys, Univ. of Amsterdam},
- type = {Technical report},
- number = {Cs-94-21},
- month = {Dec},
- year = {1994}}
-
-The paper is available from ftp.fwi.uva.nl,
-file: pub/computer-systems/functional/reports/benchmarkII.ps.Z
-
-The programs are in file: pub/computer-systems/functional/packages/benchmark.tar.Z
-
-======================================================================
-How to get GHC:
-
-This release is available, in whole or in part, from the usual Haskell
-anonymous FTP sites, in the directory pub/haskell/glasgow:
-
- ftp.dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (130.209.240.50)
- ftp.cs.chalmers.se (129.16.227.140)
- haskell.cs.yale.edu (128.36.11.43)
-
-The Glasgow site is mirrored by src.doc.ic.ac.uk (155.198.191.4), in
-computing/programming/languages/haskell/glasgow.
-
-These are the available files (.gz files are gzipped) -- some are `on
-demand', ask if you don't see them:
-
-ghc-0.23-bin-sun4.tar.gz A binary distribution -- unpack & run!
- For SunOS 4.1.x; assumes you have GNU C (gcc)
-
-ghc-0.23-bin-alpha.tar.gz A binary distribution -- unpack & run!
- Built on OSF1 V2.0; assumes you have GNU C (gcc).
-
-ghc-0.23-bin-<other>.tar.gz Other binary distributions -- we will
- make them available as we go along; they
- will be announced on the Haskell mailing list
- (not elsewhere).
-
-ghc-0.23-src.tar.gz The basic source distribution; about 3MB.
-
-ghc-0.23-hc-files.tar.gz The intermediate C (.hc) files for the
- compiler proper, the prelude, and `Hello,
- world'. About 4MB.
-
-ghc-0.23.ANNOUNCE This file
-
-ghc-0.23.{README,RELEASE-NOTES} From the distribution; for those who
- want to peek before FTPing...
-
-ghc-0.23-ps-docs.tar.gz Main GHC documents in PostScript format; in
- case your TeX setup doesn't agree with our
- DVI files...
-
-There are no diffs from version 0.22, as they would be monstrous.
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