Galois releases the Haskell Lightweight Virtual Machine (HaLVM)

Mirror: <a href="http://corp.galois.com/blog/2010/11/30/galois-releases-the-haskell-lightweight-virtual-machine-halv.html" rel="nofollow">http://corp.galois.com/blog/2010/11/30/galois-releases-the-h...</a><p>We're under very heavy load now.

Is it possible to run a web server like, say, Snap, directly on top of it ?

I looked at the source. Apparently they are writing NE2000 drivers in Haskell. It appears that this is more of a platform for writing an OS in Haskell with the help of Xen and not really for web apps.

Looks like Galois' blog has already buckled under the influx of traffic, so here's the Google cache link: <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&#38;rls=en&#38;q=cache:http://www.galois.com/blog/2010/11/30/galois-releases-the-haskell-lightweight-virtual-machine-halvm/&#38;ie=UTF-8&#38;oe=UTF-8" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&#...</a>

Very cool. Might it one day be possible to run pure haskell on Xen on AWS?

Is there a measurable benefit compared to having the OS stack there? I suppose none of the POSIX stuff are there, right?