Re: External STG Interpreter blog post

Hello, In theory the ext-stg interpereter could be used to run TH, but it is not done yet. I'm interested in optimization much much more, but I deliberately designed the ext-stg ir/tooling to be simple and easy to use and understand for others so that an average Haskell programmer could implement his ideas or do his experiment. I'm also open for discussion about the possibilities. We can have a video meeting about this if you'd like to. Cheers, Csaba On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:57 PM John Ericson wrote:

Indeed it is!

I also am very much hoping this can be the missing piece we need to allow Template Haskell to work with a stage 0 GHC, so that we can safely use TH in GHC itself even when the ABI is changing. See https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/issues/162 for details, where I've also linked Csaba's blog post. (And maybe also https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/cross-compilation/roadmap for more background, and related things like https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/412.)

TH could perhaps be used to replace some of the ad-hoc code gen we have for e.g. RTS constants and primops. This in turn would simplify the build system, allowing for `cabal install ghc` to work without shipping generated Haskell code in the sdist.

John On 4/12/21 4:51 AM, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:

That’s extremely impressive, Csaba.

Maybe of interest to folk who have been thinking about “fat interface files”.

Simon

*From:* ghc-devs *On Behalf Of *Csaba Hruska *Sent:* 10 April 2021 11:49 *To:* GHC developers *Subject:* External STG Interpreter blog post

Hello,

I've written a blog post about GHC-WPC's external stg interpreter. https://www.patreon.com/posts/external-stg-49857800 https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.patreon.com%2Fposts%2Fexternal-stg-49857800&data=04%7C01%7Csimonpj%40microsoft.com%7C1535f88608f549dabb8108d8fc0e4c3f%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637536486264337310%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=VXa%2FhDs1ePRS5NTu04buv42yj%2BFKw%2FJzBLQJSwp8qTs%3D&reserved=0

Feedback is welcome.

Cheers,

Csaba

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