Duncan Coutts pushed to branch wip/dcoutts/remove-signal-tickers-docs at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC
Commits:
44cf9cd7 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-12T09:48:18-04:00
Move the `Text.Read` implementation into `base`
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4ac3f7d6 by Vladislav Zavialov at 2026-05-12T09:49:03-04:00
EPA: Use AnnParen for tuples and sums
Summary of changes
* Do not use AnnParen in XListTy, replace it with EpToken "[" and "]"
* Specialise AnnParen to tuple/sums by dropping the AnnParensSquare
and keeping only AnnParens and AnnParensHash
* Use AnnParen in XExplicitTuple
* Use AnnParen in XExplicitTupleTy
* Use AnnParen in XTuplePat
* Use AnnParen in XExplicitSum (via AnnExplicitSum)
* Use AnnParen in XSumPat (via EpAnnSumPat)
This is a refactoring with no user-facing changes.
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1bdcddec by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00
Add minimal dlltool support to ghc-toolchain
The dlltool is a tool that can create dll import libraries from .def
files. These .def files list the exported symbols of dlls. Its somewhat
like gnu linker scripts, but more limited.
We will need dlltool to build the rts and ghc-internal libraries as DLLs
on Windows. The rts and ghc-internal libraries have a recursive
dependency on each other. Import libraries can be used to resolve
recursive dependencies between dlls. We will use an import library for
the rts when linking the ghc-internal library.
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f7fc3770 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00
Add minimal dlltool support into ./configure
Find dlltool, and hopefully support finding it within the bundled llvm
toolchain on windows.
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e4e22bfb by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00
Update the default host and target files for dlltool support
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5666c8f9 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00
Add dlltool as a hadrian builder
Optional except on windows.
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5e14fe3f by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00
Update and generate libHSghc-internal.def from .def.in file
The only symbol that the rts imports from the ghc-internal package now
is init_ghc_hs_iface. So the rts only needs an import lib that defines
that one symbol.
Also, remove the libHSghc-prim.def because it is redundant. The rts no
longer imports anything from ghc-prim.
Keep libHSffi.def for now. We may yet need it once it is clear how
libffi is going to be built/used for ghc.
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3d91e4a6 by Duncan Coutts at 2026-05-12T09:49:48-04:00
Add rule to build libHSghc-internal.dll.a and link into the rts
On windows only, with dynamic linking.
This is needed because on windows, all symbols in dlls must be resolved.
No dangling symbols allowed. References to external symbols must be
explicit. We resolve this with an import library. We create an import
library for ghc-internal, a .dll.a file. This is a static archive
containing .o files that define the symbols we need, and crucially have
".idata" sections that specifies the symbols the dll imports and from
where.
Note that we do not install this libHSghc-internal.dll.a, and it does
not need to list all the symbols exported by that package. We create a
special purpose import lib and only use it when linking the rts dll, so
it only has to list the symbols that the rts uses from ghc-internal
(which is exactly one symbol: init_ghc_hs_iface).
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c8dae539 by Alice Rixte at 2026-05-12T09:50:52-04:00
Script for downloading and copying `base-exports` file
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5fab2238 by Wolfgang Jeltsch at 2026-05-12T21:24:27+03:00
Introduce a cache of home module name providers
This contribution introduces to the module graph a cache that maps home
module names to sets of units providing them and changes the finder to
use that cache. This is a performance optimization, especially for
multi-home-unit builds.
The particular changes are as follows:
* In `GHC.Unit.Module.Graph`, `ModuleGraph` is extended with a new
field `mg_home_module_name_providers_map`, exposed as
`mgHomeModuleNameProvidersMap`. This is a cache that assigns to each
home module name the set of IDs of home units that define it.
Operations that construct module graphs are updated such that this
cache stays synchronized.
* In `GHC.Unit.Finder`, `findImportedModule` is changed to pull
`mgHomeModuleNameProvidersMap` from `hsc_mod_graph` and pass it to
`findImportedModuleNoHsc`, which now does not search home units in
arbitrary order but prioritizes those units that the cache mentions
as potential providers of the requested module.
In addition, this contribution adds variants of the two multi-component
compiler performance tests that use 100 units instead of 20, because
with just 20 units the benefits from caching of home module name
providers are still negligible.
The following table shows the total time needed for running both
multi-component tests before and after this contribution and with
different numbers of units:
| # of units | Before | After |
|-----------:|-------:|------:|
| 20 | 0:12 | 0:12 |
| 100 | 0:47 | 0:42 |
| 200 | 3:05 | 2:08 |
Note that there seems to be a general overhead of 12 seconds that is not
attributable to the actual tests, so that the real running times should
be 12 seconds smaller than shown above.
Resolves #27055.
Metric Decrease:
MultiComponentModules
MultiComponentModulesRecomp
Co-authored-by: Matthew Pickering