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  26 <h1>Projects</h1>
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  31 <div class="paragraph"><p>We have lots of ideas for projects to improve MLton, many of which we
  32 do not have time to implement, or at least haven&#8217;t started on yet.
  33 Here is a list of some of those improvements, ranging from the easy (1
  34 week) to the difficult (several months).  If you have any interest in
  35 working on one of these, or some other improvement to MLton not listed
  36 here, please send mail to
  37 <a href="mailto:MLton-devel@mlton.org"><span class="monospaced">MLton-devel@mlton.org</span></a>.</p></div>
  38 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  39 <li>
  40 <p>
  41 Port to new platform: Windows (native, not Cygwin or MinGW), &#8230;
  42 </p>
  43 </li>
  44 <li>
  45 <p>
  46 Source-level debugger
  47 </p>
  48 </li>
  49 <li>
  50 <p>
  51 Heap profiler
  52 </p>
  53 </li>
  54 <li>
  55 <p>
  56 Interfaces to libraries: OpenGL, Gtk+, D-BUS, &#8230;
  57 </p>
  58 </li>
  59 <li>
  60 <p>
  61 More libraries written in SML (see <a href="https://github.com/MLton/mltonlib"><span class="monospaced">mltonlib</span></a>)
  62 </p>
  63 </li>
  64 <li>
  65 <p>
  66 Additional constant types: <span class="monospaced">structure Real80: REAL</span>, &#8230;
  67 </p>
  68 </li>
  69 <li>
  70 <p>
  71 An IDE (possibly integrated with <a href="Eclipse">Eclipse</a>)
  72 </p>
  73 </li>
  74 <li>
  75 <p>
  76 Port MLRISC and use for code generation
  77 </p>
  78 </li>
  79 <li>
  80 <p>
  81 Optimizations
  82 </p>
  83 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  84 <li>
  85 <p>
  86 Improved closure representation
  87 </p>
  88 <div class="paragraph"><p>Right now, MLton&#8217;s closure conversion algorithm uses a simple flat closure to represent each function.</p></div>
  89 <div class="ulist"><ul>
  90 <li>
  91 <p>
  92 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2003-October/024570.html">http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2003-October/024570.html</a>
  93 </p>
  94 </li>
  95 <li>
  96 <p>
  97 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2007-July/001150.html">http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton-user/2007-July/001150.html</a>
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 101 <p>
 102 <a href="References#ShaoAppel94">ShaoAppel94</a>
 103 </p>
 104 </li>
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 106 </li>
 107 <li>
 108 <p>
 109 Elimination of array bounds checks in loops
 110 </p>
 111 </li>
 112 <li>
 113 <p>
 114 Elimination of overflow checks on array index computations
 115 </p>
 116 </li>
 117 <li>
 118 <p>
 119 Common-subexpression elimination of repeated array subscripts
 120 </p>
 121 </li>
 122 <li>
 123 <p>
 124 Loop-invariant code motion, especially for tuple selects
 125 </p>
 126 </li>
 127 <li>
 128 <p>
 129 Partial redundancy elimination
 130 </p>
 131 <div class="ulist"><ul>
 132 <li>
 133 <p>
 134 <a href="http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2006-April/028598.html">http://www.mlton.org/pipermail/mlton/2006-April/028598.html</a>
 135 </p>
 136 </li>
 137 </ul></div>
 138 </li>
 139 <li>
 140 <p>
 141 Loop unrolling, especially for small loops
 142 </p>
 143 </li>
 144 <li>
 145 <p>
 146 Auto-vectorization, for MMX/SSE/3DNow!/AltiVec (see the <a href="http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/tree-ssa/vectorization.html">work done on GCC</a>)
 147 </p>
 148 </li>
 149 <li>
 150 <p>
 151 Optimize <span class="monospaced">MLton_eq</span>: pointer equality is necessarily false when one of the arguments is freshly allocated in the block
 152 </p>
 153 </li>
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 158 Analyses
 159 </p>
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 161 <li>
 162 <p>
 163 Uncaught exception analysis
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