Sorry, I could have done with answering a bit more there...
On 11 Nov 2005, at 23:09, David Frech wrote:
I'm curious. Can you be more specific about what you thought
wanted/needed changing in nhc98's VM and/or compiler?
Basically, nhc98's backend had several problems, most notably not
being portable to windows, and the high memory bug (which I have on
reliable sources would have been pretty nasty to fix). I can't
really say anything more about Tom's reasons for rewriting it,
because I don't know how much he wants to be public. Suffice to say,
there are more benefits to the rewrite :).
I haven't played around with nhc98 yet, but I was intrigued by its
small size and its (modestly-sized and simple) bytecoded
implementation. Should I now be more interested in Yhc instead? ;-)
As far as the YHC team is concerned, yes... As far as the nhc team
is... I'm not sure, perhaps Malcolm or Colin would be kind enough to
tell us.
I'd like to build a web-publishing framework in Haskell that is
totally self-contained, very portable, and easy to bootstrap ... and
nhc98 or Yhc might be a nice place to start.
Yhc is certainly a good place to start - it's extremely easy to
bootstrap on many many platforms.
Thanks
Bob
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