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* "gf -make -j=n" uses n parallel threads. * "gf -make -j" adapts to the number of processors in the system. This mimics how "cabal build -j" and "ghc --make -j" works. Support for this is implemented in the new module GF.System.Concurrency and it depends on the function Control.Concurrent.setNumCapabilities, which is only available in GHC>=7.6 (base>=4.6). GF can still be compiled with GHC<7.6, but then you have to use +RTS -N -RTS to take advantage of multicore processors. To detect the number of processors in the system, the code depends on a foreign import of a C function in the GHC run-time system.
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 download/index.html for installation instructions.
(More details can be found in doc/gf-developers.html.)