fork and ghc

[skaller]

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:26 -0700, John Meacham wrote:

> on another topic, I ran across this old paper online which gives an
> exceedingly clever method of implementing a functional language compiler
> doing real garbage collection and efficient tail calls in portable C
>  http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/CheneyMTA.html
> It is very interesting, I think I might implement it as my 'fast to
> compile' back end for jhc if I can adapt it to a lazy language.

Not even marginally portable ;(

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