Neil Mitchell

Safe Haskell is a new extension to the Haskell language that is implemented in GHC as of version 7.2. It allows for unsafe code to be securely incl...

Many of the most common sources of frustration and complaints about Haskell's packaging system have as their root cause limitations in the dependen...

We begin with a functional reactive programming (FRP) model in which every program is viewed as a signal function that converts a stream of input v...

Lazy evaluation helps programmers write clear programs. However, it has significant run-time overheads for building many as-yet unevaluated express...

A GHC status update, including new features coming to the compiler and new thoughts about stack traces and profiling.

From the Haskell Implementor...

The task of program optimisation is frustratingly hard, with many possible problem sources to consider. Consequently, good profiling tools are esse...

ThreadScope is a powerful debugging tool for parallel Haskell programs. It reads GHC-generated event logs and displays them in a user-friendly form...

The most commonly used map (dictionary) data types in Haskell are implemented using some kind of binary tree, typically a size balanced tree or a P...

Inlining recursive functions can be tricky business: the inliner should take care not go in an infinite loop inlining the same functions again and ...