Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: You can now build LLVM using Shake, and a rebuild with nothing to do goes massively faster than make (0.8s vs 199s) and fractionall...

Summary: There are three types of dependencies you might want to express in a build system, all of which are supported by Shake. A build s...

Summary: I've identified two fixed-size buffer errors in the NSIS compiler generator, one of which is a buffer overflow leading to a seg...

Summary: Shake is now hosted on GitHub and there is a mailing list. I've just converted Shake over to Git, hosted on GitHub, and creat...

Summary: Shake v0.3 had a serious space leak that went undiagnosed for over a year, this post describes how I tracked it down. Introducti...

Summary: Management of finite resources is an important part of any modern build system, only properly available in Shake and Ninja. I...

Last February I had a few discussions with David Terei about replacing the Nofib benchmark suite build system with something based on Shak...

Summary: Shake 0.8 is out, ask any questions on StackOverflow Shake is a build system I have been working on sporadically for the last fou...

Summary: Shake 0.5 is out, a strongly recommended upgrade. Shake is a build system I have been working on sporadically for the last four ...

I am delighted to announce that Henry David Mitchell was born 29th October 2012 weighing 4.02kg (8lb 14oz). Mother and baby are both doing w...

Summary: The talks from the Haskell Exchange 2012 are online. The Haskell Exchange 2012 took place last week. We had a good range of spea...

The Haskell Exchange 2012 is happening all day next Wednesday, October 10th, in London. There is still time to register, and with the disco...

Skills Matter are having a 1-day Haskell conference in London on October 10th: Haskell Exchange 2012 The conference is dedicated to pra...

I'll be at ICFP 2012 in a few weeks, talking about Shake . One thing I'd like to include on the slides are some information about h...

Standard Chartered , the bank where I work, is hiring – there are two vacancies for functional programmers in either London or Singapore. We...

Derive is a tool for generating code from Haskell data types - you specify the data type, and it automatically derives code, often instance...

My ICFP 2012 Shake paper is now online: Shake Before Building - Replacing Make with Haskell . From the abstract: Most complex software pro...

Summary: Shake maintains metadata as the build progresses. This metadata must remain up to date and consistent even if the process is killed...

Update: These functions have been cleaned up, improved with respect to error conditions and async exceptions, and put in the extra package...

Summary: I just updated the Hoogle website. It looks nicer on the iPhone and the source is on GitHub. The Website The Hoogle website is ...