[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: feldspar-language

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Emil Axelsson wrote:

> Henning Thielemann skrev:
>> 
>> I'm trying to get realtime signal processing with Haskell for long. I make 
>> progress, but slowly. Has Ericsson ever thought about using Haskell itself 
>> for signal processing? (But I think they already have Erlang?)
>
> No, using Haskell directly is not an option (at least with current compiler 
> technology). Their performance requirements are very high, and the signal 
> processors have quite limited memory, so putting a Haskell RTS on them 
> wouldn't work.
>
> Yes, Erlang is used in some applications, but that's more for "control 
> programs", not for numerical computations.
>
> I hope you will succeed in making real-time signal processing in Haskell 
> work!

I'm currently testing JHC to that end. It produces relatively small C
programs without a precompiled run-time system.