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Introduced the function parallelCheck :: [Check a] -> Check [a] that runs independent checks in parallel, potentially allowing faster grammar compilation on multi-core computers, if you run gf with +RTS -N. However, on my dual core laptop, this seems to slow down compilation somewhat even though CPU utilization goes up as high as 170% at times. (This is with GF compiled with GHC 7.0.4.)
DESCRIPTION
The Grammatical Framework (=GF) is a grammar formalism based on type theory.
It consists of
* a special-purpose programming language
* a compiler of the language
* a generic grammar processor
The compiler reads GF grammars from user-provided files, and the
generic grammar processor performs various tasks with the grammars:
* generation
* parsing
* translation
* type checking
* computation
* paraphrasing
* random generation
* syntax editing
GF particularly addresses four aspects of grammars:
* multilinguality (parallel grammars for different languages)
* semantics (semantic conditions of well-formedness, semantic
properties of expressions)
* grammar engineering (modularity, abstractions, libraries)
* embeddability in programs written in other languages (C,C++,
Haskell, Java, JavaScript)
COMPILATION and INSTALLATION of source distribution:
See doc/gf-developers.html for installation instructions.