STG code

[Tim Chevalier]

On 2/19/08, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ext-core stuff is more complicated, and the support libraries that
> were meant to exist around it have all bit-rotted in nasty ways. As it
> currently stands, Tim's work is about the easiest route to getting
> Core out of GHC, but is fairly unpolished and a little ad-hoc at the
> moment. Compiling the base to get out a working Core language that can
> be read back has numerous pitfalls. A nice supported GHC.Core library
> would be my current number one wish for GHC.

I'd like to clarify Neil's comments here.

By "Tim's work", I assume he means the work I did on extending the GHC
API to support so-called "internal Core" -- if you link your program
against the GHC library.

Although I am glad that Neil and perhaps others have found this work
useful, I have abandoned it with respect to using it for my own
research, and am currently focusing on getting External Core working
-- towards creating that "nice supported GHC.Core library" that Neil
(and I) would like.

Cheers,
Tim

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