On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:58:11AM +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Is there an interest in hosting GHC on the JVM (besides my own).
Yep. I wrote a JVM backend for GHC (LambdaVM). It is suffering from bit-rot though. I think this thread has re-spaked my interest in it though.
I don't think it's so hard to translate GHC's Core language to the JVM.
Definitely not. That is more or less the route I took (I actually transform STG it into yet another simple intermediate laguage that is more JVM friendly, this was more for optimization purposes though). While C-- looks fantastic for generating native code, it just didn't seem worth the effort to shoehorn it into the JVM. Although I haven't looked at any of the new backend stuff, I suspect it still won't be suitable for the JVM. -Brian