"D. Tweed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > One of the thoughts behind this was the knowledge that it's just the two > Simons' at Microsoft Cambridge now maintaining/developing GHC; _if it were > possible_ (and I'll quite concede it may not be) to leverage work on .NET > for other purposes (particularly if .NET actually fulfills one of its > `promises' to be OS neutral) to decrease the amount of work to keep one of > the two Haskell remaining compilers (GHC, NHC) viable and up-to-date.
As I see it, .NET is just generating more work. I seriously doubt that the efficiency of a .NETed Haskell would be anywhere close to what GHC delivers today. This is judging from the various attempts to compile Haskell to JVM (sure there are some differences between JVM and .NET, but I am pretty sceptical that this will significantly close the gap). What we need is some seriously new technology. See http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/project/poc/ for some ideas. Cheers Manuel _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
