9 Aug
2006
9 Aug
'06
8:45 p.m.
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, John Meacham wrote:
on another topic, I ran across this old paper online which gives an exceedingly clever method of implementing a functional language compiler doing real garbage collection and efficient tail calls in portable C http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html It is very interesting, I think I might implement it as my 'fast to compile' back end for jhc if I can adapt it to a lazy language.
Not even marginally portable ;( -- John Skaller <skaller at users dot sf dot net> Felix, successor to C++: http://felix.sf.net