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Architecture

• Architecture of open source applications

Trac

Good for digging up recent'ish development history of various topics.

• Trac

• Use this example query to search Trac since the search functionality is useless

Memory management / Garbage collection

• https://wiki.haskell.org/GHC/Memory_Management

• Current GC: Parallel Generational-Copying Garbage Collection with a Block-Structured Heap; Simon Marlow, Tim Harris, Roshan P. James, Simon Peyton Jones

• Experimental concurrent GC abandoned for worsening performance too much: Multicore Garbage Collection with Local Heaps; Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones

• RTS notes on the garbage collector

Thread scheduling

• Dynamic Circular Work-stealing Deque; David Chase, Yossi Lev

• Wool - fine grained independent task parallelism in C

GHC commentary

• Commentary top level

• RTS

• Heap and Stack

Build system

• https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Architecture

Porting GHC to a new architecture

• https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Building/Porting

• https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/CrossCompilation