[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: Harpy -- run-time code generation library

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 08:58 -0700, Justin Bailey wrote:
> On 5/11/07, Dirk Kleeblatt <klee at cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>         Hi everybody,
>         
>         we're pleased to announce the first release of Harpy.
>         
>         Harpy is a library for run-time code generation of x86 machine
>         code.
>         It provides not only a low level interface to code generation
>         operations, but also a convenient domain specific language for
>         machine
>         code fragments, a collection of code generation combinators
>         and a
>         disassembler.
> 
> Impressive.  Does the library require that an assembler ( e.g. MASM)
> be installed? 

No. Check out the code. It directly generates x86 machine code in memory
and you can execute it in-place. It's pretty cool.

Duncan