I am pleased to announce the initial release of hpc-strobe: Hpc-generated strobes for a running Haskell program. hpc-strobe is a rudimentary library that demonstrates the possibility of using Hpc (Haskell Program Coverage) to inspect the state of a running Haskell program. hpc-strobe-0.1 has been uploaded to hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/hpc-strobe/0.1/hpc-strobe-0.1.ta... In ordinary use of Hpc, a single so-called tix file is produced at the end of a run. The tix file records how many times each expression has been used during the run. This can be used to mark up the source code, identifying expressions that have not been used. hpc-strobe uses the basic machinery provided by Hpc to produce multiple tix files, also called strobes, representing the coverage at different times while the program is running. By subtracting such two tix files, again using Hpc machinery, a tix file representing the expressions used between the times of recording the subtracted tix files is produced. This may be used, for example, to get a better idea of what a long-running program is doing. It could also be used as a profiling tool, getting information about how many times individual expressions are used. A program is included whose strobe differences produce a crude rendering of an analog clock when they are used to mark up the source code using Hpc. Please see the attached example (gunzip the file, point you browser to it, scroll down to view the canvas function). Use of the library involves a simple change of the main function and also requires the program to be enabled for hpc. At the time of writing, this means using a fairly recent version of GHC and compiling the Haskell code with the -fhpc option. For additional details, see the README included in the package. Best regards Thorkil