On Fri, 13 Nov 2009, John Meacham wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 08:55:51PM +0000, Lennart Augustsson wrote:
That was indeed my point. Since a compiler is a substantial program I
would have more confidence it a compiler that is self-hosting.
Surely you must have tried?
No, there are extensions that I use in jhc's code base that jhc itself
does not support yet (fundeps for instance).
Maybe you can skip fundeps and move to Type families immediately.
Although said extensions would be nice and are on the list of things to
add to jhc, there are other tasks that are more important. I write a lot
of code in Haskell, so getting jhc to compile in jhc isn't much more
important than getting any of the other projects I work on to compile in
it and I prioritize accordingly. I am all about variety in the tools I
use. I never understood the desire to have it be self-hosting, I mean,
sure it is a nice abstract goal, but there are things with concrete
benefits that are more important to jhc right now. (of course,
priorities change over time.)
A JHC compiled JHC might be faster and noticeably smaller? My current jhc
executable is 15 MB.
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