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Nitpick but technically there is not a Haskell runtime, only compiler (at least if we're talking about ghc)
by tehsauce 7y ago
Nitpick but technically there is not a Haskell runtime, only compiler (at least if we're talking about ghc)
- eyevanmalicesun 7y agoThere is most definitely a haskell runtime... what do you think handles garbage collection in haskell programs. Haskell also needs a runtime to execute its evaluation strategy which is not call stack based, but graph reduction based.
- nilkn 7y agoGHC does have a runtime system, conveniently called RTS. This page has some more details: https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/runtime_control.html https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_gu...