David Wilczynski writes:
>> 1) JAVA -- Are there any plans to compile Haskell into byte codes for
>> execution on the Java Virtual Machine? The Java issue is very important.
At 09:22 97/08/27, Simon L Peyton Jones wrote:
>I know of a couple of prototypes of such a thing, one at Yale, and one at
>Nottingham. It is clearly do-able. It's pretty heavyweight, though: every
>thunk (i.e. nearly every sub-expression) tuns into a new class. I doubt it
>would be fast.
At 08:52 97/08/27, David Wakeling wrote:
>Over the last year, I have developed not one, but two compilers from
>Haskell to Java Virtual Machine code. Both are based on the Chalmers
>HBC compiler.
1) How does David Wakeling's compiler work; is every thunk turned into a
new class?
2) There is another variation, allowing a Haskell interpreter and a Java
byte code interpreter interchange control over a program (which should be
more efficient). Has this been done?
Hans Aberg
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