On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Eduardo Costa wrote:
> course. Since I am not able to program in languages like C or
> Oberon, I would like to have a practical lazy functional compiler
> (or a practical prolog compiler). I hope to convince people to implement
> such a compiler.
I think the compiler that you want _almost_ exists: doesn't nhc98 meet
everything except the `speed of compiled code close to unoptimized C'? The
problem seems (to someone with only an informal knowledge of how these
things are implemented) is that the curve of performance versus
{complication of analyses for compilation,code size, implementation
effort} for a functional language running on stock cpus is pretty
lograithmic, so you need something within an order of ghc's size to
compile as well as ghc does. If this is inaccurate then please correct me.
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