Rodrigo Mesquita pushed to branch wip/romes/ast-ohne-faststring at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: dc32cdd8 by Rodrigo Mesquita at 2026-07-07T14:51:09+01:00 ttg: Using ShortText over FastString in the AST To make the AST independent of GHC, this commit replaces usages of `FastString` with `HText` in the AST, killing the last edge from Language.Haskell.* to GHC.* modules. Even though we /do/ want to use FastStrings in general -- critically in Names or Ids -- there is no particular reason for the FastStrings that occur in the AST proper to be FastStrings. Strings in the AST are typically unique and don't benefit particularly from being interned FastStrings with Uniques for fast comparison. `HText` is a type synonym for `ShortText` which uses GHC's Modified UTF-8 encoding exclusively. Modified UTF-8 must be used to represent the Haskell AST because the Haskell Report allows surrogate code points. `Data.Text.Text` functions use Standard UTF-8 which replace surrogates with a placeholder value, thus `Data.Text.Text` is unsuitable for AST strings. See the `Language.Haskell.Syntax.Text` module header for more details. Final progress towards #21592 Closes #21628 - - - - - 97 changed files: - + changelog.d/T21628 - compiler/GHC/Builtin/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/Cmm/CLabel.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/Core/TyCon.hs - compiler/GHC/Data/FastString.hs - compiler/GHC/Data/StringBuffer.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Errors/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Session.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Decls.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Dump.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Lit.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Type.hs - compiler/GHC/Hs/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Errors/Types.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Foreign/C.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Foreign/JavaScript.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Foreign/Wasm.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Match.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Match/Literal.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Pmc/Desugar.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Pmc/Solver/Types.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Quote.hs - compiler/GHC/Iface/Syntax.hs - compiler/GHC/Parser.y - compiler/GHC/Parser/Errors/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/Parser/HaddockLex.x - compiler/GHC/Parser/Lexer.x - compiler/GHC/Parser/PostProcess.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Bind.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Env.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/HsType.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Module.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Splice.hs - compiler/GHC/Rename/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToByteCode.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToCmm/Foreign.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToCmm/Prim.hs - compiler/GHC/StgToJS/FFI.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Deriv/Generate.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Deriv/Generics.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Errors.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Errors/Ppr.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Bind.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Expr.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/HsType.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Pat.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Sig.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Gen/Splice.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Instance/Class.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Solver/Dict.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/TyCl.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/TyCl/Utils.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Types/Origin.hs - compiler/GHC/Tc/Validity.hs - compiler/GHC/ThToHs.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Basic.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Error.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/FieldLabel.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/ForeignCall.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Literal.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Module/Warnings.hs - compiler/GHC/Utils/Binary.hs - compiler/GHC/Utils/Outputable.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Basic.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Decls.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Decls/Foreign.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Expr.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Lit.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Module/Name.hs - + compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Text.hs - compiler/Language/Haskell/Syntax/Type.hs - compiler/ghc.cabal.in - libraries/ghc-boot/GHC/Data/ShortText.hs - testsuite/tests/count-deps/CountDepsAst.stdout - testsuite/tests/count-deps/CountDepsParser.stdout - testsuite/tests/ghc-api/annotations-literals/literals.stdout - testsuite/tests/ghc-api/annotations-literals/parsed.hs - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/DumpParsedAst.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/DumpParsedAstComments.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/DumpRenamedAst.stderr - testsuite/tests/parser/should_compile/DumpTypecheckedAst.stderr - + testsuite/tests/parser/should_run/StringStartsWithNull.hs - + testsuite/tests/parser/should_run/StringStartsWithNull.stdout - testsuite/tests/parser/should_run/all.T - testsuite/tests/perf/compiler/hard_hole_fits.stderr - utils/check-exact/ExactPrint.hs - utils/check-exact/check-exact.cabal - utils/haddock/haddock-api/haddock-api.cabal - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Hyperlinker/Parser.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/LaTeX.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Backends/Xhtml/Decl.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Convert.hs - utils/haddock/haddock-api/src/Haddock/Interface/Create.hs The diff was not included because it is too large. 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