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by fendor at 2025-08-13T12:42:18+02:00
Move stack decoding logic from ghc-heap to ghc-internal
The stack decoding logic in `ghc-heap` is more sophisticated than the one
currently employed in `CloneStack`. We want to use the stack decoding
implementation from `ghc-heap` in `base`.
We cannot simply depend on `ghc-heap` in `base` due do bootstrapping
issues.
Thus, we move the code that is necessary to implement stack decoding to
`ghc-internal`. This is the right location, as we don't want to add a
new API to `base`.
Moving the stack decoding logic and re-exposing it in ghc-heap is
insufficient, though, as we have a dependency cycle between.
* ghc-heap depends on stage1:ghc-internal
* stage0:ghc depends on stage0:ghc-heap
To fix this, we remove ghc-heap from the set of `stage0` dependencies.
This is not entirely straight-forward, as a couple of boot dependencies,
such as `ghci` depend on `ghc-heap`.
Luckily, the boot compiler of GHC is now >=9.10, so we can migrate `ghci`
to use `ghc-internal` instead of `ghc-heap`, which already exports the
relevant modules.
However, we cannot 100% remove ghc's dependency on `ghc-heap`, since
when we compile `stage0:ghc`, `stage1:ghc-internal` is not yet
available.
Thus, when we compile with the boot-compiler, we still depend on an
older version of `ghc-heap`, and only use the modules from `ghc-internal`,
if the `ghc-internal` version is recent enough.
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Metric Increase:
size_hello_artifact
size_hello_artifact_gzip
size_hello_unicode
size_hello_unicode_gzip
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These metric increases are unfortunate, they are most likely caused by
the larger (literally in terms of lines of code) stack decoder implementation
that are now linked into hello-word binaries.
On linux, it is almost a 10% increase, which is considerable.