[Haskell-cafe] Erlang VM in Haskell

[Lennart Augustsson]

I think Haskell is the right language to nail down the semantics of Erlang
and to prototype an implementation.
For performance, I think Haskell is probably not the right language, because
you need high performing low level code.
This isn't impossible in Haskell, but the implementations are not geared
towards that.

On 8/16/07, Joel Reymont <joelr1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Aug 16, 2007, at 1:36 PM, Neil Bartlett wrote:
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> > However, wouldn't it be rather difficult, given that there doesn't
> > seem to be a publicly available specification for the Erlang VM or the
> > BEAM file format
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> Very difficult, correct. I use Erlang daily, in fact Erlang is what
> brings bread to my table. I want to learn more about the Erlang
> insides so I'll simply dig in.
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> > Perhaps it would be interesting to look at a slightly more constrained
> > problem: can Erlang's message passing model (including distributed
> > messaging across a network) and process monitoring facilities be
> > replicated in Haskell?
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> My ultimate goal is to have a version of the Erlang VM that's
> suitable for running trading systems, i.e. one that allows high-speed
> numerics. I don't have much interest in replicating OTP in Haskell
> and Haskell may ultimately not be the right choice for what I envision.
>
>         Thanks, Joel
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