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by riscy 3753 days ago
Uh, care to explain why you think something like compiling Haskell to Java will yield better performance than writing an optimizing compiler such as GHC, with its native backend and optimizations that are tailored specifically for the types of programs written in Haskell (including things like the runtime system such as the garbage collector)?
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Sorry, riscy, with >= I mean, Frege programs will take longer than native ones.
Ah, okay. :)