[Haskell] Re: ANNOUNCE: The jhc Haskell compiler.

[Jan-Willem Maessen]

On Apr 27, 2005, at 6:56 PM, John Meacham wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 06:14:53PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>>
>>> * It takes ridiculous amounts of memory and CPU. A gigabyte of RAM
>>> usage is not unheard of.
>>
>> Confirmed :-{
>
> After the initial bootstrap of the libraries, future compiles will be
> much faster. (but slower than ghc still)

If jhc itself is built with ghc, I've had good luck with the following 
wrapper:

export JHCPATH=${JHCPATH:-"/path/to/jhc/lib"}
/path/to/jhc/jhc +RTS -A1M -M650M -c -RTS $*

> I recently added support for pre-built libraries so if a machine is not
> powerful enough to bootstrap, you can just bring a prebuilt
> prelude.hl from another machine and get going.
>
>         John
>
>
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