Whatever happened to the JVM backend for GHC? That might actually be a relatively straightforward solution to the whole "interface to Java" problem.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > liamoc: > > On 19 April 2010 05:29, Don Stewart <d...@galois.com> wrote: > > > That's great info -- we do have an unregisterised ARM port of GHC in > > > Debian, iirc. (And the LLVM backend can generate ARM code too) > > > > > > Sounds good. With regards to LLVM, what dependencies does LLVM ARM > > code have? Android has gnu libraries not llvm, i don't know if that is > > okay. > > > > A superior approach would be to compile haskell to Java or Dalvik > > bytecode (or even JVM bytecode if it doesn't use any JIT features; > > then we can compile that to dalvik bytecode), but this is obviously > > more work if we already have an ARM port. > > More work also in that you need to port the runtime system to Java... > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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