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- It includes all the bits required to execute Haskell code that aren't compiled into the code itself.
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For example, the RTS contains the code that knows how to raise an exception when you call `error`,
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and code to implement the multi-precision `Integer` operations (via the GMP library).
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code to allocate `Array#` objects, and code to implement `takeMVar#`.
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- It includes a sophisticated storage manager, including a multi-generational garbage collector with copying
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and compacting strategies.
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- Heap-profiling (of various kinds), time-profiling and code coverage of Haskell code are included.
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- Support for Software Transactional Memory is now included...
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- Support for Software Transactional Memory.
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Next, we try to make sense of how it all fits together.
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