Thanks for the Weekly News that is really useful info.
On 25 October 2014 09:00, Austin Seipp
Note: this post is available (with full hyperlinks) at https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/blog/weekly20141024
- This past week, a discussion sort of organically started on the `#ghc` IRC channel about the future of the LLVM backend. GHC's backend is buggy, has no control over LLVM versions, and breaks frequently with new versions. This all significantly impacts users, and relegates the backend to a second class citizen. After some discussion, Austin wrote up a proposal for a improved backend https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/ImprovedLLVMBackend, and wrangled several other people to help. The current plan is to try an execute this by GHC 7.12, with the goal of making the LLVM backend Tier 1 for major supported platforms.
Is this effort orthogonal to NCG for armv7 and armv8? I am glad people are thinking about how to address this but "we ship and fix a version of LLVM for GHC" sounds a bit scary to me. :) Jens