[Haskell-cafe] Re: Field names

Justin Bailey jgbailey at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 11:32:03 EDT 2008


2008/9/8 Daryoush Mehrtash <dmehrtash at gmail.com>
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pattern matching and memory management in Haskell (or may be GHC implementation of it) is somewhat of a mystery to me.  Are there any references that explains the underlying implementation?
>
> Daryoush

Be careful what you ask for. This paper is 16 years old but fairly
relevant. Click the "view or download" link at the bottom:

  "Implementing Lazy Functional Languages on Stock Hardware: The
Spineless Tagless G-Machine"
  http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.53.3729

Justin


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