On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Neil Bartlett<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Take a look at the "things that suck" in the following description of
> LambdaVM, another effort to compile Haskell to the JVM by Brian
> Alliet:
>
>   http://wiki.brianweb.net/LambdaVM/Implementation

No chance to comment there, so I'll point out here that instead of
seeing if the indirect pointer in a thunk is null, he should just
initialize it to 'this'.

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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Tom Davies<[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Jun 26, 6:53 am, Attila Szegedi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Good luck with that. All previous attempts run into very ugly problems
>>> in implementing lazy evaluation (and no, tail calls won't solve that).
>>
>> What are the ugly problems here? I've used CAL (sort of Haskell 98 for
>> the JVM minus some syntactic sugar) happily, although certainly you
>> can get big performance improvements by indicating strictness.
>>
>> Tom
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> >
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