Papers about nhc98

Here are some published papers about early versions of the nhc compiler (pre-Haskell'98). Much of the information is still relevant.

• nhc - Nearly a Haskell Compiler, Niklas Rojemo, Chalmers Tech Report, 1994.
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/ojemo94nhc.html
• Highlights from nhc - a space-efficient Haskell compiler, Niklas Rojemo, Proceedings of FPCA 1995.
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/361160.html
• Garbage Collection, and Memory Efficiency, in Lazy Functional Languages, Niklas Rojemo, Doctoral Thesis, 1995.
  http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~rojemo/thesis.html

Papers about heap profiling (as implemented in nhc98).

• Lag, drag, void and use - heap profiling and space-efficient compilation revisited, Niklas Rojemo and Colin Runciman, Proceedings of ICFP 1996.
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rojemo96lag.html
• Two-pass heap profiling: a matter of life and death, Colin Runciman and Niklas Rojemo, Proceedings of IFL 1996.
  http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/runciman96twopass.html

The latest updates to these pages are available on the WWW from http://www.haskell.org/nhc98/

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