Re: ticket for adding ARM backend to NCG?

Hi, On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Rob Stewart wrote:

On 3 January 2014 12:37, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:

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* But using LLVM has some disadvantages. c) we play some efficiency tricks (notably "tables next to code") that LLVM can't play (yet). I think.

In fact, this could well be implemented in the GHC 7.10, as this has been committed in LLVM on 15th September: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ghc-devs/2013-September/002565.html

From my reading of the documentation for this feature it seems like for GHC to take advantage of it LLVM also needs to implement global symbol offsets [1]. I've emailed the author of the function prefix data patch, but he didn't respond.

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