Neil Mitchell's Blog (Haskell etc)

Summary: Shake could corrupt the build database under rare circumstances. Last week I finally figured out why, and fixed it. The Shake build...

I wrote an article for the Communcations of the ACM which is now available on the ACM Queue , entitled Leaking Space , all about space leak...

Summary: If you use NSIS plugins along with LZMA solid compression, make sure you reference the plugins first. The NSIS Windows Installer s...

Summary: I've just released NSIS-0.2.3 which supports NSIS plugins. My NSIS library is a Haskell EDSL to make it easier to write NSIS W...

Summary: Generating graphs from Haskell modules is easy, using Haskell-src-exts and Uniplate. In my recent Uniplate talk I showed a grap...

I'll be talking at two events this month - hope to see some people there! 9 Oct 2013 - Haskell eXchange 2013 Everyone should use a G...

Summary: I wrote a simple program to detect repeated words in a file. This post gives a walk-through of how I developed it. My wife is cur...

Summary: New versions of unordered-containers cause a massive performance regression in uniplate (10x slower is typical), which I have fixed...

Summary: Haskell programmer willing to relocate to Singapore? Come work for Standard Chartered! Standard Chartered , the bank where I work...

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...