Scaling up the IDE to 20M imports

This SkillsCast is currently only available to registered attendees of Haskell eXchange 2021: Pro Track

It will be freely available to all Skills Matter members once the Haskell eXchange 2021: Pro Track early-access window expires on January 15, 2022.

HLS is a popular Haskell IDE: fast, feature-rich, extensible, easy to install and ubiquitous. But what happens when you try to use it in a very large enterprise codebase?

To understand the performance characteristics, we will deep dive into the ghcide build graph and execution model to characterise the amount of work done per keystroke. We will learn that currently the work is proportional to the number of import declarations and that this doesn't scale well. To address this issue we extend HLS to track the build nodes changed since last build and obtain a reactive build graph where the amount of work is proportional only to the number of nodes changed and their reverse dependency closure.

HLS is an IDE engine built on top of a build system. The programming model is fantastic, and this talk shows that it also has an efficient execution model. Moreover, the talk will hopefully shed some light on the internals and serve as a resource for current and future HLS contributors.

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