http://blog.moertel.com/articles/tag/ghc?tag=ghc en-us 40 Quality rants on programming theory and stuff geeks like <p>Hooray! The <a href="http://www.haskell.org/ghc/">Glasgow Haskell Compiler</a>, version 6.6, <a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/users_guide/release-6-6.html">has been released</a>. Among the many new features in <span class="caps">GHC 6</span>.6 are a few that I&#8217;m looking forward to using right away:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/users_guide/sec-using-smp.html"><span class="caps">SMP</span> support</a> to keep dual-core processors happy.</li> <li><a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/users_guide/sec-bang-patterns.html">Bang patterns</a> to strictify function arguments automatically, saving many calls to <code>seq</code>.</li> <li><a href="http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.6/html/users_guide/gadt.html">GADTs can now use record syntax</a>.</li> <li>GHCi now allows tab completion of in-scope names and modules on platforms that use readline (i.e. not Windows).</li> </ul> <p>Congratulations and a big <em>thank-you</em> to <a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Contributors">the <span class="caps">GHC</span> team</a>!</p> Wed, 11 Oct 2006 12:21:00 -0400 urn:uuid:d8315a4a-2ea7-4d01-9975-e2fe347577db Tom Moertel http://blog.moertel.com/articles/2006/10/11/ghc-6-6-is-out haskell haskell ghc http://blog.moertel.com/articles/trackback/183