ZuriHac 2018 GHC DevOps track - Request for Contributions

[Michal Terepeta]

Hi Niklas,

Sorry for slow reply - I'm totally snowed under at the moment.

I should be able to give some overview/examples of what are primops and how
they go through the compilation pipeline. And talk a bit about the
Cmm-level parts of GHC. But I won't have much time to prepare, so there
might be fair amount of improvisation...

Are you coming to this week's HaskellerZ meetup? We could chat a bit more
about this.

Cheers!

- Michal

On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 12:07 PM Niklas Hambüchen <mail at nh2.me> wrote:

> On 08/04/2018 15.01, Michal Terepeta wrote:
> > I'd be happy to help. :) I know a bit about the backend (e.g., cmm
> level), but it might be tricky to find there some smaller/self-contained
> projects that would fit ZuriHac.
>
> Hey Michal,
>
> that's great. Is there a topic you would like to give a talk about, or a
> pet peeve task that you'd like to tick off with the help of new potential
> contributors in a hacking session?
>
> Other topics that might be nice and that you might know about are "How do
> I add a new primop to GHC", handling all the way from the call on the
> Haskell side to emitting the code, or (if I remember that correctly)
> checking out that issue that GHC doesn't do certain optimisations yet (such
> as emitting less-than-full-word instructions e.g. for adding two Word8s, or
> lack of some strength reductions as in [1]).
>
> > You've mentioned performance regression tests - maybe we could also work
> on improving nofib?
>
> For sure!
> Shall we run a hacking session together where we let attendees work on
> both performance regression tests and nofib? It seems these two fit well
> together.
>
> Niklas
>
> [1]:
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23315001/maximizing-haskell-loop-performance-with-ghc/23322255#23322255
>
>
>
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