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title: Sylvain Henry
episode: 84
buzzsproutId: 19412450
recorded: 2026-01-27
published: 2026-06-28
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In this episode of the Haskell Interlude, we are joined by Sylvain
Henry, one of the all-time top contributors to GHC. He tells us about
his work on GHC, the bignum library, modularization, and the secret to
becoming a top contributor!
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- [Paper: Build Systems a la Carte](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3236774)
- [Paper: GRIP—A high-performance architecture for parallel graph reduction](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/36583.36590)
- [Paper: ViperVM: a Runtime System for Parallel Functional High-Performance Computing on Heterogeneous Architectures](https://hsyl20.fr/files/papers/shenry_2013_fhpc.pdf)
- [Domain-Driven Design](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design)
- [Whitepaper: Modularizing GHC](https://hsyl20.fr/files/papers/2022-ghc-modularity.pdf)
- [Matthew Pickering - The Interface for Multiple Home Units](https://well-typed.com/blog/2022/01/multiple-home-units/)
- [GHC BigNum library](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-bignum)
- [GHC JS](https://github.com/ghcjs/ghcjs)
- [The Asterius Compiler](https://github.com/tweag/asterius)
- [Zig language](https://ziglang.org/)
- [Stable Haskell Project](https://www.stable-haskell.org/)
- [Unison language](https://www.unison-lang.org/)
- [MicroHS](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/MicroHs)
- [IOG](https://www.iog.io/)
- [Haskus](https://haskus.org/)
- [Perf](https://perfwiki.github.io/main/)
- [Hadrian](https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/tree/master/hadrian)
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