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authorAlexis King <lexi.lambda@gmail.com>2022-09-11 11:30:32 +0200
committerAlexis King <lexi.lambda@gmail.com>2022-09-11 11:30:32 +0200
commit04062510806e2a3ccf0ecdb71c704a8e1c548c53 (patch)
tree23fe7599fa11138695b127581e2f8904ddc9b6d9 /rts/RtsSymbols.c
parent9c4ea90c6b493eee6df1798c63a6031cc18ae6da (diff)
downloadhaskell-04062510806e2a3ccf0ecdb71c704a8e1c548c53.tar.gz
Add native delimited continuations to the RTS
This patch implements GHC proposal 313, "Delimited continuation primops", by adding native support for delimited continuations to the GHC RTS. All things considered, the patch is relatively small. It almost exclusively consists of changes to the RTS; the compiler itself is essentially unaffected. The primops come with fairly extensive Haddock documentation, and an overview of the implementation strategy is given in the Notes in rts/Continuation.c. This first stab at the implementation prioritizes simplicity over performance. Most notably, every continuation is always stored as a single, contiguous chunk of stack. If one of these chunks is particularly large, it can result in poor performance, as the current implementation does not attempt to cleverly squeeze a subset of the stack frames into the existing stack: it must fit all at once. If this proves to be a performance issue in practice, a cleverer strategy would be a worthwhile target for future improvements.
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/RtsSymbols.c')
-rw-r--r--rts/RtsSymbols.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/rts/RtsSymbols.c b/rts/RtsSymbols.c
index f979c324ba..317b284158 100644
--- a/rts/RtsSymbols.c
+++ b/rts/RtsSymbols.c
@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@ extern char **environ;
SymI_HasProto(ENT_DYN_IND_ctr) \
SymI_HasProto(ENT_PERM_IND_ctr) \
SymI_HasProto(ENT_PAP_ctr) \
+ SymI_HasProto(ENT_CONTINUATION_ctr) \
SymI_HasProto(ENT_AP_ctr) \
SymI_HasProto(ENT_AP_STACK_ctr) \
SymI_HasProto(ENT_BH_ctr) \
@@ -1047,6 +1048,9 @@ extern char **environ;
SymI_HasProto(sendCloneStackMessage) \
SymI_HasProto(cloneStack) \
SymI_HasProto(decodeClonedStack) \
+ SymI_HasProto(stg_newPromptTagzh) \
+ SymI_HasProto(stg_promptzh) \
+ SymI_HasProto(stg_control0zh) \
RTS_USER_SIGNALS_SYMBOLS \
RTS_INTCHAR_SYMBOLS