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Of Monadic Fixpoints and Heap Offsets

Here at ICFP, sometimes the so-called “hallway track” is sometimes just as important as the ordinary track. Johan Tibell was wanting to avoid an out-of-line call to allocate function in GHC when a small array of statically known size was allocated. But he found the way that GHC's new code generator handles heap allocation a […]

  • September 24, 2013