
5 Mar
2006
5 Mar
'06
4:29 a.m.
On 4-Mar-06, at 11:07 AM, S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
Does ghc work on the (intel) macbooks or does it need to be rebuilt? Will code compiled for the old macs work on the macbooks or does it need to be recompiled?
Yes and no. GHC, and programs compiled by it, should run without recompiling under Apple's "Rosetta" emulator, but that will be slower than on (powerpc) PowerBooks. A port to Mac OS X on Intel is in progress and mostly finished. GHC 6.6 will support building native Intel code for the new Macs; if there is sufficient demand, I could also backport this support to the GHC 6.4.x line once it's finished. Cheers, Wolfgang