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Latest News

11 July 2014
GHC 7.8.3 Released! [download]
12 April 2014
GHC 7.8.2 Released! [download]
9 April 2014
GHC 7.8.1 Released! [download]
21 April 2013
GHC 7.6.3 Released! [download]
29 January 2013
GHC 7.6.2 Released! [download]
6 September 2012
GHC 7.6.1 Released! [download]
10 June 2012
GHC 7.4.2 Released! [download]
2 February 2012
GHC 7.4.1 Released! [download]
11 November 2011
GHC 7.2.2 Released! [download]
9 August 2011
GHC 7.2.1 Released! [download]
15 June 2011
GHC 7.0.4 Released! [download]
27 March 2011
GHC 7.0.3 Released! [download]
3 March 2011
GHC 7.0.2 Released! [download]
16 November 2010
GHC 7.0.1 Released! [download]
12 June 2010
GHC 6.12.3 Released! [download]
22 April 2010
GHC 6.12.2 Released! [download]
14 December 2009
GHC 6.12.1 Released! [download]
16 July 2009
GHC 6.10.4 Released! [download]
9 May 2009
GHC 6.10.3 Released! [download]
1 April 2009
GHC 6.10.2 Released! [download]
4 November 2008
GHC 6.10.1 Released! [download]

What is GHC?

GHC is a state-of-the-art, open source, compiler and interactive environment for the functional language Haskell. Highlights:

  • GHC supports the entire Haskell 2010 language plus a wide variety of extensions.
  • GHC has particularly good support for concurrency and parallelism, including support for Software Transactional Memory (STM).
  • GHC generates fast code, particularly for concurrent programs. Take a look at GHC's performance on The Computer Language Benchmarks Game.
  • GHC works on several platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, most varieties of Unix, and several different processor architectures. There are detailed instructions for porting GHC to a new platform.
  • GHC has extensive optimisation capabilities, including inter-module optimisation.
  • GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
  • Profiling is supported, both by time/allocation and various kinds of heap profiling.
  • GHC comes with several libraries, and thousands more are available on Hackage.

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