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April 9, 2014

Glasgow Haskell Compiler — version 7.8.1

Filed under: Functional Programming,Haskell — Patrick Durusau @ 2:17 pm

The (Interactive) Glasgow Haskell Compiler — version 7.8.1

From the announcement:

The GHC Team is pleased to announce a new major release of GHC. There
have been a number of significant changes since the last major release,
including:

  • New type-system features
    • Closed type families
    • Role checking
    • An improved solver for type naturals
  • Better support for cross compilation
  • Full iOS support
  • Massive scalability improvements to the I/O manager
  • Dynamic linking for GHCi
  • Several language improvements
    • Pattern synonyms
    • Overloaded list syntax
    • Kind-polymorphic ‘Typeable’ class
  • A new parallel –make mode
  • Preliminary SIMD intrinsic support
  • A brand-new low level code generator
  • Many bugfixes and other performance improvements.

The full release notes are here:

http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/7.8.1/html/users_guide/release-7-8-1.html

Other links:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ Downloads.

http://www.haskell.org/ Haskell homepage

April has gotten off to a good start, now wondering what else is coming in April?

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