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by Dougal Stanton :: Rate this Message:

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On 31/10/2007, Peter Hercek <peter@...> wrote:

> Anyway, if Haskell would do some kind of whole program analyzes
>   and transformations it probably can mitigate all the problems
>   to a certain degree.
>

I think JHC is supposed to do whole-program optimisations. Rumour has
it that its Hello World examples are the fastest around - I have heard
it has problems with larger code bases though. ;-) What's the current
state of play on this?

D.
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