[Haskell-cafe] Interacting with Java in GHCVM

[Alp Mestanogullari]

Hey Rahul,

Please keep us posted about further experiments/benchmarks, I'm really
interested in seeing where GHCVM goes and what we can learn/reuse from it :)

Cheers

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:20 AM, Rahul Muttineni <rahulmutt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alp,
>
> I had a nice time going through inline-java and sparkle! The API I made up
> for the Java FFI is similar to yours but I don't do the extensive
> type-level hackery that you have. Another key difference is that I use GHC
> Annotations to specify the qualified class name where you use type-level
> strings.
>
> Nice work supporting almost all of the JNI in a clean way! I recently
> looked at the JNI API and it stated that the functions that interact with
> the JVM are a tad slow due to reflection + the fact that native methods
> don't get inlined. I'm interested in benchmarking programs compiled with
> GHC/Sparkle vs GHCVM/FFI to Spark once the first release is out.
>
> Thanks,
> Rahul
>
>
> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 1:05 PM, Alp Mestanogullari <alpmestan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> For what it's worth, at Tweag we've developed some preliminary bindings
>> to Apache Spark, and as part of this we developed a somewhat decent API for
>> calling Java. You can check it out on hackage [1] and on github [2]. In
>> cast that can save you some time or inspire you.
>>
>> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/inline-java
>> [2]: https://github.com/tweag/sparkle -- see the inline-java directory
>>
>>
>> On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 4:54 AM, Rahul Muttineni <rahulmutt at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Haskell-Cafe,
>>>
>>> I've been working on a JVM backend for GHC [1] and I took some time to
>>> flesh out a design for the Java FFI [2] which will pretty much decide
>>> whether the project will be useful or not. I would love feedback from the
>>> community on how to improve the design or requests for important interop
>>> features that I have neglected.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rahul Muttineni
>>>
>>> [1] http://github.com/rahulmutt/ghcvm
>>> [2] https://gist.github.com/rahulmutt/355505bce57c7c2cffd7d4cf5edddad4
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Alp Mestanogullari
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Rahul Muttineni
>



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