runtime optimization of haskell

[Colin . Runciman]

D. Tweed wrote:
| I'm just curious if there's anyone in the Haskell/FP community working on
| such things? (The closest thing I'm aware of is David Lester's stuff on
| throw away compilation (sorry no pointer))

Perhaps you were thinking of David *Wakeling*'s work?  See:

David Wakeling,
The dynamic compilation of lazy functional programs,
Journal of Functional Programming, 8(1), pp61-82,
January 1998.