16 Sep
2009
16 Sep
'09
1:54 p.m.
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