[Haskell-cafe] New GHC Features for 7.10.1 and Beyond

Henning Thielemann schlepptop at henning-thielemann.de
Tue Apr 1 09:34:56 UTC 2014


These are indeed great ideas!

I like especially this one:


Am 01.04.2014 06:37, schrieb Gershom Bazerman:

> Another important area of research is quantum computation. The D-Wave
> Two, with 512 qbits, is a commercially available quantum computer now
> deployed in a few leading institutions. As more and more people begin to
> purchase D-Wave systems for home hacking, every language worth its salt
> will need to be able to target this system. Now that cross compilation
> is more fully supported, it would be good to start putting work into a
> dwave backend.

I think quantum support would justify to give the compiler an according 
name like QHC. Or if it is released on days like today, AHC would also 
be a good name.



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