Matthew Pickering pushed to branch wip/gbc-files at Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC Commits: c7f8f69f by Matthew Pickering at 2025-10-09T12:19:05+01:00 Add support for generating bytecode objects This commit adds the `-fwrite-byte-code` option which makes GHC emit a `.gbc` file which contains a serialised representation of bytecode. The bytecode can be loaded by the compiler to avoid having to reinterpret a module when using the bytecode interpreter (for example, in GHCi). There are also the new options: * -gbcdir=<DIR>: Specify the directory to place the gbc files * -gbcsuf=<suffix>: Specify the suffix for gbc files The option `-fbyte-code-and-object-code` now implies `-fwrite-byte-code`. These performance tests fail due to https://github.com/haskell/directory/issues/204 ------------------------- Metric Increase: MultiComponentModules MultiLayerModules MultiComponentModulesRecomp MultiLayerModulesRecomp MultiLayerModulesTH_Make MultiLayerModulesTH_OneShot T13701 ------------------------- The bytecode serialisation part was implemented by Cheng Shao Co-authored-by: Cheng Shao - - - - - 66 changed files: - compiler/GHC/Builtin/PrimOps.hs - compiler/GHC/ByteCode/Breakpoints.hs - + compiler/GHC/ByteCode/Serialize.hs - compiler/GHC/ByteCode/Types.hs - compiler/GHC/Data/FlatBag.hs - compiler/GHC/Data/SmallArray.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Backend.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Backpack.hs - + compiler/GHC/Driver/ByteCode.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Config/Finder.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Downsweep.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/DynFlags.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Flags.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Main.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Messager.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Pipeline/Execute.hs - compiler/GHC/Driver/Session.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Breakpoints.hs - compiler/GHC/HsToCore/Usage.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Deps.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Loader.hs - compiler/GHC/Linker/Types.hs - compiler/GHC/Runtime/Eval.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/SptEntry.hs - compiler/GHC/Types/Tickish.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Finder.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Finder/Types.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Module/Graph.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Module/Location.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Module/ModSummary.hs - compiler/GHC/Unit/Module/WholeCoreBindings.hs - compiler/GHC/Utils/Binary.hs - compiler/ghc.cabal.in - docs/users_guide/phases.rst - docs/users_guide/separate_compilation.rst - testsuite/tests/bytecode/T24634/T24634a.stdout - testsuite/tests/bytecode/T24634/T24634b.stdout - testsuite/tests/count-deps/CountDepsAst.stdout - testsuite/tests/count-deps/CountDepsParser.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/A.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/BytecodeForeign.c - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/BytecodeForeign.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/BytecodeMain.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/BytecodeTest.hs - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/Makefile - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/all.T - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object12.stderr - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object13.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object14.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object15.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object16.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object17.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object18.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object19.script - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object19.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object25.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object4.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object5.stdout - + testsuite/tests/driver/bytecode-object/bytecode_object6.stdout - testsuite/tests/driver/fat-iface/T22405/T22405.stdout - testsuite/tests/driver/fat-iface/T22405/T22405b.stdout - testsuite/tests/driver/fat-iface/fat011.stderr - testsuite/tests/perf/compiler/Makefile - + testsuite/tests/perf/compiler/MultiLayerModulesDefsGhciWithBytecodeFiles.script - testsuite/tests/perf/compiler/all.T - testsuite/tests/simplStg/should_compile/T22840.stderr The diff was not included because it is too large. View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/c7f8f69f6f541308e148a9e9f045052f... -- View it on GitLab: https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/commit/c7f8f69f6f541308e148a9e9f045052f... You're receiving this email because of your account on gitlab.haskell.org.