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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fantastic. As Simon says, what would be most helpful is better documentation on the wki, in the Commentary. The root is here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">and the rudimentary GHCi docs are here<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends/GHCi">
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends/GHCi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If that’s too awkward, a link to a PDF would be good, but it’s clearly not editable by others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Simon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> William Kenyon [mailto:wk249@cam.ac.uk]
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<b>Sent:</b> 30 April 2013 10:28<br>
<b>To:</b> Simon Marlow; Simon Peyton-Jones<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Norman Ramsey; ghc-devs@haskell.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: Fwd: GHC internals<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">> If you mean the details of bytecode compilation and the bytecode interpreter, I'm really not sure that there is. That's bad; there </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">> should be. I'm ccing Simon M in case he knows of something.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I'm just starting to write detailed documentation for the bytecode generator and interpreter as part of my Masters project,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What format would be most useful for you guys? I could do it in haddock and then include it into my project? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Or just do it in plain latex and make my report publicly available?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Will<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 30 April 2013 10:02, Simon Marlow <<a href="mailto:marlowsd@gmail.com" target="_blank">marlowsd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">From: *Simon Peyton-Jones* <<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a><br>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:simonpj@microsoft.com" target="_blank">simonpj@microsoft.com</a>>><o:p></o:p></p>
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Norman<br>
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| - Is there anything published about the implementation of GHCi?<br>
| Or perhaps something on the Developers' Wiki that explains how it<br>
works?<br>
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If you mean the details of bytecode compilation and the bytecode<br>
interpreter, I'm really not sure that there is. That's bad; there<br>
should be. I'm ccing Simon M in case he knows of something.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Julian Seward wrote some notes on the way GHCi works, which are in the commentary:<br>
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<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends/GHCi" target="_blank">http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Compiler/Backends/GHCi</a><br>
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It's not much, but there are some technical details about stacks and suchlike there. The bytecode itself is a pretty simple stack machine, I can probably answer questions if there's anything you need some help with.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Simon<o:p></o:p></p>
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