Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) is a state-of-the-art programming suite for Haskell. This software includes an optimising compiler generating good code for a variety of platforms, together with an interactive system for convenient, quick development. The distribution includes space and time profiling facilities, a large collection of libraries, and support for various language extensions, including concurrency, exceptions, and foreign language interfaces (C, whatever).
GHC has two main components: an interactive Haskell interpreter (also known as GHCi), and a batch compiler. In fact, GHC consists of a single program which is just run with different options to provide either the interactive or the batch system.
Haskel is “the” standard lazy functional programming language. Haskell98 is the current version of the language.
Key Features
- Supports the entire Haskell 98 language plus a wide variety of extensions.
- Good support for concurrency and parallelism, including support for Software Transactional Memory (STM).
- Generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs.
- Extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation.
- Compiles Haskell code either by using an intermediate C compiler (GCC), or by generating native code on some platforms.
- Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap profiling.
- A wide range of libraries is included.
- Works on several platforms.
Website: www.haskell.org/ghc
Support: Documentation
Developer: The University Court of the University of Glasgow
License: Glasgow Haskell Compiler License
Glasgow Haskell Compiler is written in Haskell and C. Learn Haskell with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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