HaskellImplementorsWorkshop/2009

The first Haskell Implementors' Workshop was held in conjunction with ICFP 2009 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

• Call for Talks
• Videos of Presentations

Important Dates

• Workshop: September 5 2009

Organisers

• Duncan Coutts - co-chair (Well-Typed LLP)
• Atze Dijkstra (Utrecht University)
• Roman Leshchinskiy (University of New South Wales)
• Simon Marlow - co-chair (Microsoft Research)
• Bryan O'Sullivan (Linden Lab)
• Wouter Swierstra (Chalmers University of Technology)

Program

9.00 : Start

• GHC Status Update (Simon Peyton Jones)
• A more flexible code generator for GHC (John Dias)

10.00 - 10.30 : Tea/coffee

• Haskell Types with Added Value (Conor McBride)
• Towards a Lightweight, Safety-preserving Haskell Compiler (Tim Chevalier)
• Stack tracing in Haskell (Bernie Pope)

12.00 - 13.30 : Lunch

• Haskell for Everyone: Hackage and the Haskell Platform (Don Stewart & Duncan Coutts)
• My Dream GHC Environment: A Few Things We Do Right, and Many We Do Wrong (Curt Sampson)
• Discussion: Haskell building and packaging (including an update on Cabal and cabal-install from Duncan Coutts)

15.00 - 15.30 : Tea/coffee

• GHC on the OpenSPARC T2 (Ben Lippmeier)
• A wander through GHC's new IO Library (Simon Marlow)

16.30 - 16.45 : short break

• Implementing Data Parallel Haskell (Roman Leshchinskiy)
• Running Haskell Array Computations on a GPU (Manuel M T Chakravarty)