This book contains the strictly refereed post-workshop proceedings
originating from the 8th International Workshop on the Implementation of
Functional Languages, held in Bad Godesberg, Germany, in September
1996.
The 15 thoroughly revised full papers presented were selected after a
second round of reviewing from the 26 contributions accepted for
presentation at the workshop. Also included is an overview by the volume
editor. The volume addresses various implementational issues of
functional languages including parallel implementations, language
concepts and design, type systems, interpretation and compilation
techniques, automatic program generation, concurrent processing, machine
architectures, runtime profiling and application programming.