[Haskell-cafe] Imagining a G-machine

Bayley, Alistair Alistair_Bayley at invescoperpetual.co.uk
Thu May 17 03:51:50 EDT 2007


> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of John Meacham
> > 
> > But then GHC would be faster then JHC!  (Nobody cares about jhc,
> > certainly not enough to implement a recognizer for it...)
> 
> Ah, but think of how much faster jhc development would be if it didn't
> take ghc 20 minutes to compile it every time I made a change :)
> 
>         John


Is JHC not yet self-hosting? (or whatever the appropriate term is for a
compiler that can compile itself) If it is, how long does it take to
compile itself?

Alistair
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