On 12/11/12 8:58 AM, Janek S. wrote:
Dear list,
I would like to learn about internals of GHC and contribute to its development
in the future. I
read a couple of papers that give a very general overview of GHC (chapter from
AoS, papers about
inliner and multicore support) and I'm thinking what direction should I pursue
now. I was
thinking about:
a) getting GHC sources, reading the commentary on the GHC wiki and hacking the
code
b) reading SPJs "Implementing Functional Languages: a tutorial"
c) reading SPJs "The Implementation Of Functional Languages" book
I would definitely go for a), but I don't know if I'll manage to understand the
code without
knowing how functional languages are compiled. I have a rather basic knowledge
of compilers in
general - I took Stanford's online course on Compilers at Coursera. Should I
get more theoretical
knowledge? Any advice is greatly appreciated.
One bit of advice is to sign up for the
<glasgow-haskell-us...@haskell.org> list. That's a better place to get
information about GHC internals than the cafe is.
Other than that, it's hard to say. What part of the compiler are you
(most) interested in hacking on? The type system? The compilation down
to C-- and LLVM? The concurrency and parallelism? Debugging, testing,
and fuzzing? ...
--
Live well,
~wren
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