Good idea Josef Svenningsson at Chalmers is in charge of External Core these days. Let's see what he says. Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: libraries-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:libraries-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of John | Meacham | Sent: 27 July 2005 03:23 | To: libraries@haskell.org | Subject: external core | | Now, the external core feature of ghc is great, but it is not utilized | very much. The main reason I think is that there is a large barrier to | entry in writing something that uses it since you need to parse/generate | it. | | It would be nice if there were a standard library that came with ghc (or | cabalized and portable even better) that could parse and pretty print | external core. | | ideally, one could write a simple pass-through core processor that | interacts with ghc in a single line and someone working on a new | optimization need only worry about that. | | Also, it would make it very easy for jhc to generate and parse ghc core | files (always an ulterior motive). I wanted to use jhcs front end to | generate ghc core so I could get a true measure of the difference in | just their back-end performance without taking into account ghc's | superior high-level optimizations. | | In any case. I think all the code is out there in ghc and it just needs | to be separated and cabalized. I know there was talk of creating a ghc | internals library, but it would be nice if this code were portable and | independent. | | John | | | -- | John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ | _______________________________________________ | Libraries mailing list | Libraries@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries