[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haskell and .NET

Krasimir Angelov kr.angelov at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 10:43:40 EST 2006


On 12/13/06, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Krasimir,
>
> > to produce code with reasonable performance. The major problem with
> > YHC is that it still doesn't have strictness analyzer.
>
> It does, or rather Yhc.Core does (see Yhc.Core.Strictness -
> http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/yhc/snapshot/docs/Yhc-Core-Strictness.html).
> This was only done a few weeks ago, so the .NET translator has no
> benefit from it.
>
> And strictness is not the biggest problem, a complete lack of any
> optimisations is, but I'm working on that one too!

It is great to hear that. Of course an optimiser will be beneficial
too but I guess that even the benefit that the code generator can have
from the strictness analyzer will make huge difference.

Cheers,
  Krasimir


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