HaskellImplementorsWorkshop/2010

Haskell Implementors Workshop 2010

The 2009 Haskell Implementors Workshop was a great success, and we will be holding another one on October 1 2010, alongside ICFP 2010 in Baltimore.

Links

• Call for Talks

Dates

• Friday 6 Aug: Submissions due
• Monday 23 Aug: Notification
• Friday 1 Oct: Workshop

Organisers

• Jean-Philippe Bernardy (Chalmers University of Technology)
• Duncan Coutts - co-chair (Well-Typed LLP)
• Iavor Diatchki (Galois)
• Simon Marlow - co-chair (Microsoft Research)
• Ben Lippmeier (University of New South Wales)
• Neil Mitchell (Standard Chartered)

Programme

8:00 8:45 Breakfast

9:00 10:00 Session 1

• Hackage, Cabal and the Haskell Platform: The Second Year (Don Stewart and Duncan Coutts)

Slides, Video

• Hackage 2.0: Serving Packages Better (Matthew Gruen)

Slides (PDF), Video

10:00 10:30 Break

10:30 12:30 Session 2

• Shake: A Better Make (Neil Mitchell)

Slides (PDF), Video

• Improving Cabal's Test Support (Thomas Tuegel)

Slides (PDF), Video

• Revamping Haddock Output (Mark Lentczner)

Slides, Video

• First short-talks session: 10-minute(ish) talks/demos, sign up on the day
  • GHC Status - Simon Peyton Jones Slides, Video
  • UHC Status - Atze Dijkstra Slides , Video

12:30 2:00 Lunch

2:00 3:00 Session 3

• Typed type-level functional programming in GHC (Brent Yorgey)

Slides, Video

• Second short-talks session: 10-minute(ish) talks/demos, sign up on the day
  • DDC peekOn/pokeOn (Ben Lippmeier) Slides Video
  • Scrap your zippers (Michael Adams)
  • Parallel CASHflow (Kevin Hammond)
  • Eden - a parallel Haskell (Oleg Lobachev)
  • Performance visualization for multicore Haskell (Peter Wortmann)
  • pandoc + lhs2TeX for literate programming (Tillmann Rendel)

3:00 3:30 Break

3:30 4:30 Session 4

• Fibon -- a new benchmark suite for Haskell (David Peixotto)

Slides (PDF)

• Kansas Lava -- Using and Abusing GHC's Type Extensions (Andrew Farmer)

Slides

4:30 5:00 Break

5:00 6:00 Session 5

• Scheduling Lazy Evaluation on Multicore (Simon Marlow)

Slides

• Beyond Haskell discussion, chaired by Ben Lippmeier

Slides