[GHC] #8255: GC Less Operation

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#8255: GC Less Operation
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        Reporter:  sirinath          |            Owner:
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  closed
        Priority:  lowest            |        Milestone:  _|_
       Component:  Compiler          |          Version:  7.7
      Resolution:  invalid           |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  Runtime           |       Difficulty:  Project (more
  performance bug                    |  than a week)
       Test Case:                    |       Blocked By:
        Blocking:                    |  Related Tickets:
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Comment (by carter):

 With all due respect Sirinth, if you wish for a no gc language,

 you should look at Rust-lang,

 the sort type system machinery needed to safely doing no GC is very
 different from the style GHC / haskell currently supports. The differences
 needed are quite substantial, and any effort to adjoin them to GHC would
 be quite a substantial type system research project, in addition to all
 the attendant systems engineering.

 unless you have a concrete type system and engineering roadmap for such
 experimentation, this discussion is better on haskell-cafe or another
 community forum.

 We've given you a number of background reading references to help you
 understand the nuances attendant with the goals you want (which are
 valuable, but HARD goals).

 That said, if you have specific *detailed*  technical insights, please
 share them with us.

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