[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why can't Haskell be faster?

[Stefan Holdermans]

Bernie wrote:

> I discussed this with Rinus Plasmeijer (chief designer of Clean) a  
> couple of years ago, and if I remember correctly, he said that the  
> native code generator in Clean was very good, and a significant  
> reason why Clean produces (relatively) fast executables. I think he  
> said that they had an assembly programming guru on their team.  
> (Apologies to Rinus if I am mis-remembering the conversation).

That guru would be John van Groningen...

If I understood correctly, and I think I did, John is now working on  
a Haskell front end for the Clean compiler---which is actually quite  
interesting in the light of the present discussion.

Cheers,

   Stefan