Re: Haskell -> Java bytecode?

[Artur Zawlocki]

Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> Wed, 24 May 2000 01:24:57 -0700, Simon Peyton-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> 
> > Performance will not be great.  More like Hugs than GHC.
> 
> Is this because of lack of optimization, or is it inherent in using
> Java bytecode?

I guess the poor performance results from representing heap objects
(closures in the STG-machine, graph nodes in the G-machine etc.) as java
classes. Class instance initialisation seems to be rather heavy-weight
operation in the JVM. 

Artur