[Haskell-cafe] More on the random idea

[Donald Bruce Stewart]

overdrigzed:
> 
>      As far as I know, hs-plugins works by taking an
>      expression, writing it
>      to a file, calling GHC to parse it, transform it to Core,
>      optimise it,
>      transform it to STG, optimise it, transform it to C--,
>      optimise it,
>      transform it to ANSI C, optimise it, pass it to GCC,
>      compile it, link
>      it, and *then* using the GHC runtime linker to load the
>      generated object
>      code into memory, type-check it, and, finally, execute
>      it.
> 
>    Don't forget the Evil Mangler, which optimises the compiled
>    assembly!
>    [1]http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/haskell/ghc/comm/the-bea
>    st/mangler.html
> 

Close, but hs-plugins uses -fasm, so its:

    File -> Core -> STG -> C-- -> ASM -> ld -> link -> typecheck -> run.

Avoiding mangler and gcc.

-- Don