On Oct 21, 2007, at 14:40 , Maurí cio wrote:
I like Haskell, and use it as my main language. However, compiling a Haskell program usually takes a lot of memory and CPU. So I was
To some extent this is just a matter of Haskell not having been around that long ago: as ghc evolves, it's been getting better about this. Before ghc snapshots stopped being able to compile themselves (*grumble* --- is this fixed yet?) I found that ghc 6.7 compiling itself didn't do nearly as much violence to my desktop machine as compiling 6.7 (or 6.8pre or 6.9) with ghc 6.4 / 6.6 / 6.6.1. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH