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'. > > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:40 AM, Tom Davies<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> 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 >> > >> > > > > -- GMail doesn't have rotating .sigs, but you can see mine at http://www.ccil.org/~cowan/signatures --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "JVM Languages" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jvm-languages?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
