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		pnathan on April 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Haskell Heap Why can't Haskell tutorials speak plainly? I write code, I read mathematics. Each software concept has a linkage to a mathematical concept. I am not a magician to be gibbered at by strange words only understood by the esoteric initiates.

skew on April 19, 2011 [–]

Then it sounds like you would want to learn about the runtime from this:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Commentary/Rts

pnathan on April 19, 2011 | [–]

Thanks!

It'd be nice if there was something between obscure mutterings and the compiler internal docs though, doncha think? :-)

skew on April 19, 2011 | | [–]

How about papers? Almost everything has been written up. This is the introduction to the multicore runtime:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers...

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