[GHC] #2959: Merge in LambdaVM (Haskell to Java/JVM bytecode translator)

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#2959: Merge in LambdaVM (Haskell to Java/JVM bytecode translator)
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    Reporter:  kgardas           |        Owner:                  
        Type:  feature request   |       Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal            |    Milestone:  6.12 branch     
   Component:  Compiler          |      Version:  6.11            
    Severity:  normal            |   Resolution:                  
    Keywords:                    |   Difficulty:  Unknown         
    Testcase:                    |           Os:  Unknown/Multiple
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |  
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Changes (by igloo):

  * difficulty:  => Unknown
  * milestone:  => 6.12 branch

Comment:

 The problem with merging it in (apart from the initial work to do the
 merge) is that then people working on GHC need to keep it working.

 Could it be easily modified to use the GHC API instead?

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2959#comment:1>
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