
14 Mar
2010
14 Mar
'10
3:50 a.m.
In the thread "strictness of unused arguments", Max Bolingbroke wrote:
There is nothing *published* (Simon has a half-written one lying around though)... Unfortunately the weird behaviour you are seeing is due to... one of the unpublished bits...
There are various critical parts of the inner workings of GHC that are poorly understood outside of the GHC team. Strictness analysis and other optimizations, and the syntax and semantics of GHC Core, immediately come to my mind. There is much more. As a user of GHC, I would vote for a full two-month delay in the next release of GHC to allow the GHC team to devote two months of their time exclusively to writing documentation. Thanks, Yitz