Re: Emitting java bytecode?

Einar Karttunen writes:

Tomasz Zielonka writes:

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For example, some darcs users complain ...

Perhaps making -keep-hc-files a bit more documented ...

This could be faster and easier to implement than creating a version of the RTS running under the JVM. ==============

More generally: do you (Tomasz and others) really think that Java, or even C/C++ is a good "portable" platform for implementing efficiently Haskell or other lazy functional languages?? I believe this has been discussed already. And GHC passed already through this stage. I don't believe the world can return to it. The RT model is different, even decently implemented tail recursion is not so easy in C, and in Java I wouldn't bet either. Moreover, I don't think that Haskell is a good way to perpetuate imperative languages as "portable platforms". While Lisp machine belongs to the past, it seems reasonable to hope that "functional hardware", with some universal implementation paradigms, will be more popular... Jerzy Karczmarczuk