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- Experimental changes to the scheduler (Simon Marlow, [ in progress](https://github.com/simonmar/ghc/commit/7e05ec18b4eda8d97e37015d415e627353de6b50)) that enable the number of threads used for GC to be lower than the `-N` setting.
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- **Improved idle CPU usage**: A long-standing regression ([\#11965](https://gitlab.haskell.org//ghc/ghc/issues/11965)) resulting in unnecessary wake-ups in an otherwise idle program was fixed. This should lower CPU utilization and improve power consumption for some programs.
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### Frontend, build system and miscellaneous changes
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- New Shake-based build system, `hadrian`, will be merged. (Andrey Mokhov)
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