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[Timon Gehr]

On 12/02/2011 09:45 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> Am 02.12.2011 18:49, schrieb Timon Gehr:
>> On 12/02/2011 02:09 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote:
>>> The GHC compiler is written in Haskell, which is the reference
>>> implementation.
>>>
>>
>> GHC has long been completely dependent on a C compiler though, because
>> it could only compile the Haskell code to C and then invoked GCC afaik.
>
> So what?
>

Nothing, just trivia.

> Many compiler implementors use a target language instead of pure native
> code generation to spare effort developing a proper compiler backend.
>
> Current GHC versions compile directly to native code, even though you
> can still use the old C code generation backend.

I know.