Hello!
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Peter Verswyvelen
I heard that compiling Haskell to Java is not obvious since tail calls are not supported.
.NET's intermediate language (IL) does support tail calls, however it is currently slower than regular calls, and is not always supported by all JITs.
But given that F# will soon be officially released, I hope that eventually tail calls will work as expected, and fast
See e.g. http://blogs.msdn.com/clrcodegeneration/archive/2009/05/11/tail-call-improve...
So, might it be worth considering a .NET backend for a Haskell compiler?
Peter Verswyvelen
I remember reading this a while ago -- I think SPJ wrote it. It may be relevant for this discussion. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/GHC:FAQ#.NET.2FJVM_Availability Take care, Paulo