Hello Jaap, Friday, June 16, 2006, 7:27:32 PM, you wrote:
I like Haskell a lot, but I chose to use OCaml for this work because the practicalities of porting the compiler were a little easier to manage. GHC would be rather harsh on the fairly primitive MINIX memory management system, although I must admit I have not yet tried to port Haskell to MINIX, so this is purely a conjecture.
afaik, GHC is very primitive in this area - it just eats OS memory in megabyte chunks and never returns it back. also, if you don't search for speed (and in terms of low-level speed even GHC is far away from OCaml), you can try YHC compiler - it requires less memory and time for compilation and in overall designed as highly portable Haskell compiler with best debugging facilities -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com