RE: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Glasgow Haskell Compiler, version 4.04

[Simon Marlow]

> Now that you're an (ahem) Microsoft employee, is there any 
> intention of
> allowing ghc to use Visual C++ instead of gcc,

We plan to allow this, but there'll be a price to pay: the gcc extensions
that we use buy us about a factor of 2 in performance and binary sizes.

> or supporting the Win32
> platform without cygwin?

You can already build binaries on Win32 that don't need cygwin.  However,
you'll still need cygwin in order to run the compiler (for the time being,
anyway).

Cheers,
        Simon