Building head & numerics project

[Creighton Hogg]

On 5/5/06, Simon Peyton-Jones <simonpj at microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> | in general, it's too complex problem, otherwise Simons may already
> work
> | on it, because current ghc-generated code is, say, 3 times slower than
> | it could be.
>
> Thank you for believing in our expertise, but you should not assume that
> something we have not done is necessarily very difficult.  GHC has a
> huge surface area these days, so we spend a lot of time just keeping
> everything working.  Then we are researchers too (e.g. Simon M is on the
> ICFP program committee) -- maintaining GHC isn't even our real job.
>
> As a result there are many not-very-hard jobs that we simply do not get
> around to.  (I don't know if this is one of them, though.)
>
> So I say an enthusiastic Yes to anyone who's willing to jump in and
> start helping.  We need more people familiar with GHC's innards.
>


Well I'm going to take you up on that enthusiastic yes.
In order to get familiar with GHC's innards, is there anything particular I
should begin with?  At the moment I'm just reading through the user's guide.

Cheers,
Creighton Hogg
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