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Removing "ghc-options: -O2" from gf.cabal has the following advantages: + Compiling GF is faster (time drops from 182s to 142s on my laptop) + Compiling the RGL is faster (time drops from 159s to 155s on my laptop) + Without the hardwired optimization level, the 'cabal configure' options --enable-optimization=<n> and --disable-optimization work as expected (so if you still want -O2, use --enable-optimization=2) + GF can be compiled with ghc-7.2.2 and ghc-7.4.1 (-O2 triggers a bug in these versions of ghc, it seems. Another workaround, discovered by Sergei Trofimovich, is to use -O0 in Data.Binary.)
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.