http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2007/11/04/ghc-6-8-1-is-out en-us 40 additions to a vast pool of entropy by Igor and Ines A new version of <a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/download_ghc_681.html"><span class="caps">GHC</span></a> is out. Significant changes since the last release: <ul> <li><a href="http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_program_coverage">Haskell Program Coverage</a> (hpc)</li> <li>GHCi includes a <a href="http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/papers/ghci-debug.pdf">debugger</a></li> <li>The code generator uses <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/papers/ptr-tag/index.htm">pointer tagging</a> (which should mean most code improves by 10-15%, and as a result the compiler is also faster)</li> </ul> The full release notes are at: <ul> <li> <a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.8.1/html/users_guide/release-6-8-1.html">http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.8.1/html/users_guide/release-6-8-1.html</a></li> </ul> Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:26:00 +0000 urn:uuid:8bb19cab-b297-40f6-bb07-97b6a7d727e7 igor http://blog.solaris.bytelabs.org/articles/2007/11/04/ghc-6-8-1-is-out Hacking and Computers Haskell