Re: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

1999-11-26 Thread George Russell
George Russell wrote: [snip] It won't be so hard to speed up GHC later if that becomes important. Since this has been disputed, here are three ways I believe you could speed up GHC without rewriting the whole of it. I would be surprised if you didn't get at least twice the speed, and you could

RE: The Haskell compiler of my dreams...

1999-11-26 Thread Simon Marlow
(1) (I've suggested this before.) Make GHC access interface files more efficiently. If you do top and truss (on a Sun system) you will find that GHC has to read in a huge number of interface files, mainly from the prelude but also from other places, to get going. This

Re: Scientific uses of Haskell?

1999-11-26 Thread Marc van Dongen
: From: "Rob MacAulay" [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I have long been interested in Computer Algebra systems, and I : admit that one of the things that attracted me to Haskell were the : tantalizing hints that it would be ideal for mathematical : programming. [snip] : Would it also be true to say

RE: Programming Win32

1999-11-26 Thread Sigbjorn Finne
Hi, try using getModuleHandle -- see the graphical Win32 "Hello, World" example available via the ghc-win32 homepage, http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~sof/ghc-win32.html It demos how to use it. As you've gathered, there's no separate user doc for the Win32 library. Consult any Win32 programming