Although I don't know what the current JVM lacks to properly act as a
functional backend, it appears that JVM 1.7 will be at least better
suitable to support dynamic languages.
See: The Da Vinci Machine Project
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/
Arvid
On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Timo B. Hübel
Incidentally, I am looking for someone well versed in the JVM who wants to help spearhead a JVM back end for jhc.
I would love to see this! With the current advent of all those languages targeting at the JVM (Groovy, Scala, Clojure) I think a JVM backend for a Haskell compiler could, together with proper Java interop, make for a major breakthrough of Haskell in general.
Unforunately, as I can tell from my halfknowledge, the JVM lacks some important functionality required for properly targeting functional language features on the JVM.
And here comes my question: If there is anybody with proper knowledge about this issue, I would really like to know what are those things that are missing? For example, Clojure lacks proper tail recrusion optimization due to some missing functionality in the JVM. But does anybody know the details?
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