Re: ticket for adding ARM backend to NCG?

yes, but the conclusion was its unclear if it makes sense, also thats orthogonal to whether or not someone decides to do an arm NCG :) On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:06 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

Implementing "tables next to code" in the LLVM IR generation may be something to get one's teeth into in time for 7.10 ?

Carter: was this discussed further on #haskell-llvm ?

-- Rob

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| -----Original Message----- | From: ghc-devs [mailto:ghc-devs-bounces@haskell.org] On Behalf Of Karel | Gardas | Sent: 03 January 2014 11:24 | To: Jens Petersen | Cc: ghc-devs@haskell.org | Subject: Re: ticket for adding ARM backend to NCG? | | | Guys, | | I've been tinkering with ARM NCG idea for quite some time now, but | honestly I've been always in doubts if it's the best way for GHC at all. | I've thought that the plan was to kind of move out of NCG to LLVM based | backends and I've though that although this plan may be kind of stuck | now, it's still on the table. | | Yes, I know that GHC is volunteering effort so if someone comes and asks | for an ARM NCG implementation merge it'll be probably done in some time, | but I'm not sure if it's what's the most welcome at the end. | | Just some of my doubts about it... | | I would really appreciate some authoritative word about the topic from | more involved GHC developers... I mean especially about NCG future... | | Thanks! | Karel | | On 01/ 3/14 09:35 AM, Jens Petersen wrote: | > On 3 January 2014 03:10, Corey O'Connor mailto:coreyoconnor@gmail.com> wrote: | > | > My interest is just to get involved somehow in the NCG. Starting a | > new backend seemed reasonable only because I couldn't break | > something that didn't exist. ;-) | > | > | > Well a big +1 from me for armv7 NCG. | > | > | > _______________________________________________ | > ghc-devs mailing list | > ghc-devs@haskell.org | > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs | | _______________________________________________ | ghc-devs mailing list | ghc-devs@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs