On 2009-01-08 12:10, Achim Schneider wrote:
Manlio Perillo<manlio_peri...@libero.it> wrote:
Unfortunately Haskell is not yet ready for this task.
Could you -- or someone else -- please elaborate on this?
I think Haskell is ready for a lot more than most people think. How about an
operating system in Haskell, for example? I think House shows that it could be done.
http://programatica.cs.pdx.edu/House/
I've heard it once in the context of a webbrowser, the reason given was
that ghc doesn't deallocate memory, that is, the gc heap only
increases. I doubt it'd be hard to fix,
Even if the GHC RTS doesn't return unused heap memory to the operating system, I
don't see why this would prevent you from implementing a useful web browser in
Haskell.
As a comparison, my Firefox process currently uses 717MB of memory. I usually
restart Firefox every day to bring the memory use down to a reasonable level.
The situation would probably be the same if I used a browser implemented in Haskell.
Incidentally, I did implement a web browser in Haskell back in the 90s, and it
worked fine :-) But that was before JavaScript and CSS, so it would take some
work to make it useful on the web of today...
http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~hallgren/wwwbrowser.html
Thomas Hallgren
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