[Haskell-cafe] A language that runs on the JVM or .NET has the advantage of Oracle & Microsoft making those layers more parallelizable.

Niklas Larsson metaniklas at gmail.com
Sun Jul 31 22:33:31 CEST 2011


>
> I m not GHC developer but wouldn't JVM LLVM backend be sufficient? Since
> new GHC AFAIK uses LLVM then it would allow compiling Haskell to LLVM
> and LLVM to JVM.
>

The hard part wouldn't be the code generation, but the interop with
the class libraries, finding a workable way to use Java classes from
Haskell and exporting Haskell code masquerading as Java classes.

Regards,
Niklas



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