Alexis King authored 2 years ago and Marge Bot committed 2 years ago

This commit also adds a new -Dk RTS option to the debug RTS to assist
debugging continuation captures. Currently, the printed information is
quite minimal, but more can be added in the future if it proves to be
useful when debugging future issues.

fixes #23001

Add JS backend adapted from the GHCJS project by Luite Stegeman.

Some features haven't been ported or implemented yet. Tests for these
features have been disabled with an associated gitlab ticket.

Bump array submodule

Work funded by IOG.

Co-authored-by: Jeffrey Young <jeffrey.young@iohk.io>
Co-authored-by: Luite Stegeman <stegeman@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Josh Meredith <joshmeredith2008@gmail.com>

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.