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Spinless Tagless G-Machine is my DJ name and I'm miffed that SPJ and his Glasgow thugs stole it for their intermediate language/abstract machine that Haskell ev
by Y_Y 5y ago
Spinless Tagless G-Machine is my DJ name and I'm miffed that SPJ and his Glasgow thugs stole it for their intermediate language/abstract machine that Haskell eventually compiles down to.
But really, that's not a TLA that most people know, and a little explanation upfront is useful to the unenlightened.
- felixr 5y agoI was also expecting at least a one sentence explanation to what STG is. A link to https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/compiler/generated-code https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/wikis/commentary/compil... could help. Also, I think it is spineless, not spinless