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We have lots of ideas for projects to improve MLton, many of which we do not have time to implement, or at least haven't started on yet. Here is a list of some of those improvements, ranging from the easy (1 week) to the difficult (several months). If you have any interest in working on one of these, or some other improvement to MLton not listed here, please send mail to <a class="external" href="mailto:MLton@mlton.org"><img src="moin-email.png" alt="[MAILTO]" height="10" width="14">MLton@mlton.org</a>.
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Port to new platform: Windows (native, not Cygwin or MinGW), ...
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Source-level debugger
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Heap profiler
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Interfaces to libraries: OpenGL, Gtk+, D-BUS, ...
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More libraries written in SML (see <a class="external" href="http://mlton.org/cgi-bin/viewsvn.cgi/mltonlib/trunk/"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">mltonlib</a>)
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Additional constant types: Real80, ...
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An IDE (possibly integrated with <a href="Eclipse">Eclipse</a>)
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Port MLRISC and use for code generation
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Optimizations
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Improved closure representation <br>
Right now, MLton's closure conversion algorithm uses a simple flat closure to represent each function.
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<a href="http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2003-October/024570.html"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2003-October/024570.html</a>
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<a href="http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2007-July/001150.html"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2007-July/001150.html</a>
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<a href="http://mlton.org/References#ShaoAppel94"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">http://mlton.org/References#ShaoAppel94</a>
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Elimination of array bounds checks in loops
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Elimination of overflow checks on array index computations
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Common-subexpression elimination of repeated array subscripts
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Loop-invariant code motion, especially for tuple selects
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Partial redundancy elimination
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<a href="http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2006-April/028598.html"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">http://mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2006-April/028598.html</a>
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Loop unrolling, especially for small loops
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Auto-vectorization, for MMX/SSE/3DNow/AltiVec (see the <a class="external" href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html"><img src="moin-www.png" alt="[WWW]" height="11" width="11">work done on GCC</a>)
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Optimize <tt>MLton_eq</tt>: pointer equality is necessarily false when one of the arguments is freshly allocated in the block
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Analyses
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Uncaught exception analysis
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Last edited on 2008-02-26 03:27:21 by <span title="pool-96-236-146-138.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net"><a href="AdamGoode">AdamGoode</a></span>.
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