Primitive GHC-specific features
All strictly GHC-specific functionality is contained in GHC.* module. The GHC.Exts module is of particular interest. The GHC.Prim module (re-exported by GHC.Exts) exports core primitives in GHC.
For a while now, GHC has shipped with primitives for SIMD processor instructions. These are available when compiling via the LLVM backend (-fllvm).
SIMD stands for Single Instruction, Multiple Data. It basically means performing the same operation on a whole vector of machine numbers at the cost of performing that operation on just one number. SIMD vector types can be found in the GHC.Prim module. The specialized vectors are named like Int8X16#, which stands for an Int8 vector of length 16. DoubleX8# stands for a vector of ...
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