Re: [Haskell-cafe] iPhone/Android and Haskell [Was: Embedded funcional programming?]

Only problem is rewriting the GHC runtime in Java... :-) -- Don scooter.phd:

Whatever happened to the JVM backend for GHC? That might actually be a relatively straightforward solution to the whole "interface to Java" problem.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

liamoc: > On 19 April 2010 05:29, Don Stewart wrote: > > That's great info -- we do have an unregisterised ARM port of GHC in > > Debian, iirc. (And the LLVM backend can generate ARM code too) > > > Sounds good. With regards to LLVM, what dependencies does LLVM ARM > code have? Android has gnu libraries not llvm, i don't know if that is > okay. > > A superior approach would be to compile haskell to Java or Dalvik > bytecode (or even JVM bytecode if it doesn't use any JIT features; > then we can compile that to dalvik bytecode), but this is obviously > more work if we already have an ARM port.

More work also in that you need to port the runtime system to Java... _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe