Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-22 Thread Jeremy Shaw
At Sun, 21 Oct 2007 17:21:00 -0200, Maurí­cio wrote: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH escreveu: On Oct 21, 2007, at 14:40 , Maurí cio wrote: I like Haskell, and use it as my main language. However, compiling a Haskell program usually takes a lot of memory and CPU. Last night I was

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-22 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:05 -0700, Jeremy Shaw wrote: I like Haskell, and use it as my main language. However, compiling a Haskell program usually takes a lot of memory and CPU. Last night I was running top, and noticed cc1 consuming 101MB of RAM :) I have also seen ar (the thing

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-21 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, [ISO-8859-1] Maurí­cio wrote: Of course. But I think of somethink like a Intel 386 with 4MB of memory. According to The History of Haskell http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/History_of_Haskell (early versions of) Haskell could be used on such machines.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Oct 21, 2007, at 15:21 , Maurí cio wrote: Of course. But I think of somethink like a Intel 386 with 4MB of memory. It's kinda surprising to me how many people think that just because current/modern implementations of things use memory wastefully, this is somehow mandatory. When

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Oct 21, 2007, at 15:31 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mauricio writes: ... But I think of somethink like a Intel 386 with 4MB of memory. It seems you decided to ignore my message. OK. Whoa there! Why assume malice? I got both his quoted response and your message at about the same time,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-21 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Oct 21, 2007, at 21:31 , Maurí cio wrote: Anyway, what I would like would be a theoretical answer. Is there something fundamentally diferent between a C compiler and a Haskell one that makes the former fits into 30Kb but not the other? If I am not sure *modern* C would have fit into 30KB.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: How much of Haskell was possible 20 years ago?

2007-10-21 Thread Stefan O'Rear
On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 10:02:25PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: On Oct 21, 2007, at 21:31 , Maurí cio wrote: Anyway, what I would like would be a theoretical answer. Is there something fundamentally diferent between a C compiler and a Haskell one that makes the former fits into 30Kb