[Moved to haskell-cafe] Daniel Mahler schrieb:

Given your reservation regarding LLVM, you may be interested in vmgen, developed and used as a part of gforth. It is also claimed that a JVM built with vmgen had performance comparable to state of the art JITs. If I remember the author of both gforth (including vmgen) and the experimantal JVM, is Anton Ertl. Personally I have never used it, and do not know how good it is, so I am not trying to push it.

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Anyway as I said, I do not know how much mileage you could get out of it, but it seemed to be worth mentioning, given what you said about LLVM.

Thanks for the pointer to vmgen. From a brief look at the docs and the source code, though, it seems that it supports the generation of threaded interpreters (which are efficient, but not as efficient as real native code) only, whereas we are interested in "real" code generation. Greetings, Martin