During my (ongoing) vim experiment, I found myself missing some of the
amenities of haskell-mode for emacs. Namely great syntax highlighting and
pretty good indentation. vim2hs looked
reasonably nice, but did not handle indentation. It also made scrolling very
slow, perhaps because it just does too many fancy things.
haskellmode-vim had slightly
worse syntax highlighting and was also a bit slow; it also did not have much of
an indentation story.
In response, I wrote hasksyn, which has
both go…
Don't tell anyone, but I decided to try to use vim as my primary editor for a
week. I have actually used both vim and emacs for years, but I usually only
used vim for viewing files and emacs for editing them. This week is vim full
time. I like emacs, but it has been doing something annoying that I haven't
quite been able to track down. There is some keystroke that is very much like
"save file" that I keep hitting that seems to just lock up my emacs window.
To recover, I inevitably …
Introduction
I have read about Generalized Algebraic Data Types (GADTs) before, at
least
as implemented in GHC.
The standard type-safe expression evaluator was interesting, but it
never left much of an impression on me. Last week, I ran into them in
real code for the first time while I was playing with
hoopl, a library for
representing control-flow graphs and performing dataflow analysis and
graph rewriting. The use of GADTs in the hoopl code was enlightening
and now I think I have a reasonabl…
In my last post I neglected to provide installation instructions.
For most systems, it should be fairly straightforward:
Ensure that dot, llvm-config, ghc, and cabal are in your
PATH. The first is provided by the
Haskell Platform. The 2012
releases should work. Additionally, ensure that ~/.cabal/bin is
in your PATH, since the binaries will be installed there (and it
may need to be in your path during the build process, too).
Run the following script:
REPOSITORIES="hbgl-experimental…
I realized that I forgot to mention another repository related to my
last post: llvm-tools. As
the name suggests, this repository contains some useful tools based on
my llvm-analysis library.
The most interesting tool for people who aren't me is
ViewIRGraph,
which makes it easy to visualize several interesting program graphs
(anything supported by llvm-analysis). The help output gives a reasonable
breakdown:
ViewIRGraph - View different graphs for LLVM IR modules in a variety of formats
U…
Introduction
I have had the code on github for quite some time, so it seems like I
should say something about my LLVM program analysis tools. The
primary repository is
llvm-analysis, which
provides a Haskell interface for analyzing the LLVM IR. The LLVM IR
is a high-level assembly language for a virtual machine with infinite
registers. This is a virtual machine as in a piece of hardware that
does not exist rather than a JVM-style virtual machine that programs
run on. LLVM IR is converted dir…
Recently I decided to parallelize part of my set constraint solver
ifscs, which I plan to write more
about eventually. At one point, the constraint solver has a large set
to process where each element is really independent: a prefect
situation for simple coarse-grained parallelism. I had a good experience
using monad-par at another
place in my code, so I decided to try my luck again. After a bit of fooling
around, I came up with the following:
import Control.DeepSeq
import Control.Monad.Par.S…
I finally decided to use the power of emacs to automate a task that I
perform at least a dozen times per day: converting a snippet of C
source code into LLVM IR assembly. The command to do this is simple:
clang -emit-llvm -c -o - file.c | opt -S
The only annoying part about using the command was finding a spare
terminal and finding the input file on the file system (and then
remembering where I put that terminal when I wanted to refer to it
later). Enter emacs. It took a while to navigate th…
I have been using a Palm Pre (Plus) for a while. It is a great
device; the form factor is excellent with a hardware keyboard and I
really like WebOS. Unfortunately, the build quality is not so great
so it always felt a bit cheap. Additionally, it was also always kind
of on the slow side (it took much longer for it to render HTML than it
took to download it, and many other operations were slower still).
HP basically killed off WebOS and there is no new hardware on that
front, so that basically…
Lately, I have been making my presentation slides with LaTeX beamer.
I use SVGs created with inkscape (and my handy wacom tablet) for most
diagrams and the minted package
(which eventually calls pygments) for syntax
highlighted source code listings. This combination works well and
produces very nice PDFs that I can present with evince.
Unfortunately, the compile time for a large presentation is excessive
and makes incremental updates a bit of a pain. It is also wasteful
since I am not using ma…