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<title>Partially implemented features</title>
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<h1>Partially implemented features</h1>
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The compiler contains some code for the following features,
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which are not yet completed but work on which has stopped
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(often when the person doing that work has graduated)
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since finishing them off would be quite a bit more work,
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and our current priorities lie elsewhere.
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Still, these could make interesting and worthwhile projects
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if someone has the time for it.
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<p>
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We have incomplete support for a new, more expressive design
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for representing information about
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type classes and type class instances at runtime.
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When complete, the new design
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would allow runtime tests of type class membership,
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it would allow the tabling of predicates with type class constraints,
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and it would allow the debugger to print type_class_infos.
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<li>
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We have added support for dynamic link libraries (DLLs) on Windows.
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This is not yet enabled by default because it has not yet been tested properly.
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<li>
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There is an accurate garbage collector (the hlc.agc grade).
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See the comments in compiler/ml_elim_nested.m
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and the paper on our web page for more details.
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<li>
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A new implementation of the mode system using constraints.
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<li>
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Support for automatic structure reuse
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(reusing old data structures that are no longer live,
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rather than allocating new memory on the heap)
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and compile time garbage collection.
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<li>
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A SOAP interface.
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Better support for inter-module analysis and optimization.
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</body>
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