21 Sep
2007
21 Sep
'07
9:41 p.m.
STG is a very pretty island, but it's just that - an island. If you want to see the Big Picture, I can only recommend SPJ's 1987 (except for the optimization section, almost everything is still true) book:
http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/slpj-book-1987/slpj-book-1987....
Stefan
Well, if the sun shines on that island, I wouldn't mind spending a holiday over there ;-) 1987??? Gee, I was still programming in 6502 & 68000 assembler then :-) Of course, I guess one could not use Haskell back then to make a videogame on home computers with 64KB of RAM ;-) Is this still up-to-date with the way GHC/GHCi work internally? Then I'll certainly check it out. Thanks, Peter