Why and How the External STG interpreter is Useful (Online presentation, Dec 2, Friday, 17:00 UTC)

[Csaba Hruska]

Yes!

On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 4:04 PM chessai <chessai1996 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Will there be a recording?
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021, 06:55 Csaba Hruska <csaba.hruska at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's on Thursday Dec 2 17:00 UTC.  (Today)
>> Sorry for the confusion.
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 2, 2021 at 3:52 PM Csaba Hruska <csaba.hruska at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Today I'll do a presentation about the external stg interpreter.
>>> If you are interested please join and ask questions.
>>> https://skillsmatter.com/meetups/13654-haskell-stg-interp
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Csaba Hruska
>>>
>>> Abstract:
>>> Haskell: Why and How the External STG Interpreter is Useful
>>>
>>> The external STG interpreter is a from scratch implementation of the STG
>>> machine in Haskell. Currently it supports almost all GHC primops and RTS
>>> features. It can run real world Haskell programs that were compiled with
>>> GHC Whole Program Compiler (GHC-WPC). GHC-WPC is a GHC fork that exports
>>> the whole program STG IR.
>>>
>>> The external STG interpreter is an excellent tool to study the runtime
>>> behaviour of Haskell programs, i.e. it can run/interpret GHC or Pandoc. The
>>> implementation of the interpreter is in plain simple Haskell, so it makes
>>> compiler backend and tooling development approachable for everyone. It
>>> already has a programmable debugger which supports step-by-step evaluation,
>>> breakpoints and execution region based inspection. It also can export the
>>> whole program memory state and call-graphs to files for further
>>> investigation. These features make it easy to find a memory leak or to
>>> identify a performance bottleneck in a large real world Haskell application.
>>>
>>> https://github.com/grin-compiler/ghc-whole-program-compiler-project
>>>
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