This is AWESOME! If only I had this when I started learning Haskell :-) On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote:
> > I am pleased to announce the release of vacuum-cairo, a Haskell library > for interactive rendering and display of values on the GHC heap using > Matt Morrow's vacuum library. > > This library takes vacuum's output, generates dot graph format from it, > renders it to SVG with graphviz, and displays the resulting structure > using the gtk2hs Cairo vector graphics bindings ... all at the GHCi > command line. > > This tool is useful for examining Haskell data structures as they are > represented directly in the heap. In particular, it makes sharing visible > for > the first time, as well as unboxed values. It should be useful for > teaching Haskell, or for library authors debugging the design of their > data structures. > > You can see pictures of the rendered display here: > > http://code.haskell.org/~dons/images/vacuum/intmap.png > > And youtube screencasts of vacuum-cairo in action: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oujaqo9GAmA > > Get it: > > cabal install vacuum-cairo > > And on Hackage: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/vacuum-cairo > > -- Don > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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