Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC 6.7 on Windows / containers-0.1 package?

On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 05:40:59PM -0300, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote:

On 9/21/07, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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Since I'm used to write heavily multi-threaded/multi-core code in imperative languages, I would like to understand more about the existing execution models, and those "black holes"... Understanding the low-level details helps a lot for me.

I think you want to know about the STG, the Spineless Tagless G-Machine. If I'm correct, that's how GHC works behind the scenes.

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