> > Of course, access to the Java libraries is also one of the objectives of
> > those who have started to base their Haskell implementations on Java or
> > on the JVM.
>
> Do you have a URL for this project? I asked alastair about doing this and
> he said there are in-principle problems with getting this to work
> efficiently.
Specifically:
1) As of 1 year ago, all Java implementations seemed to have very slow
memory allocation - at least 10 times slower than HBC/GHC/SML-NJ.
2) Each object format requires a new class file.
Class files are large.
3) (The real killer:) The JVM doesn't support tail recursion and the
Java folks say it never will (because their security stuff exploits
this fact.)
> Alternatively, fudgets could sit on top of AWT....
As Satnam Singh and I did with Budgets (see link on my home page).
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Alastair Reid Yale Haskell Project Hacker
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