[Well-Typed Blog] GHC activities report: December 2022–January 2023

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The latest report from the Well-Typed GHC team is now published:

https://well-typed.com/blog/2023/02/ghc-2022-12-2023-01/

We’re thinking about how to revamp our reporting to make it more useful, so if you have opinions about what you’d like to see, please share them!

Also check out this recent post about some new features in GHC 9.6 to speed up GHCi and Template Haskell and unlock new analysis possibilities:

https://well-typed.com/blog/2023/02/interface-files-with-core/

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https://well-typed.com/blog/2023/02/interface-files-with-core

…interesting: it’s almost reminiscent of the old P-code Pascal implementations - all that’s required is a self-contained Core interpreter (or self-contained back-section and RTS). Whether this could be done (e.g. to help with cross-compilation) is a question I’ll leave for someone much more aware of GHC’s internals…

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