GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and
interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:
- GHC supports the entire Haskell 98 language plus a wide
variety of extensions.
- GHC generates fast code, particularly for concurrent
programs. Why not take a look at GHC's performance on The Computer Language
Shootout Bechmarks, and some
comments on Haskell by the current organiser of the
shootout, Brent Fulgham.
- GHC works on several platforms including Windows and most
varieties of Unix, and several different processor
architectures. There are detailed instructions
for porting GHC to a new platform.
- GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including
inter-module optimisation.
- GHC compiles Haskell code either by using an intermediate C
compiler (GCC), or by generating native code on some platforms.
The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and
supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
- Profiling
is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap
profiling.
- GHC comes with a wide range of libraries.
GHC is heavily dependent on its users and contributors.
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and contributions!
