On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 03:59:01PM +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: Hi,
On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 15:10 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
at http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms I read, that the Sparc NCG 'is bitrotted' - does that mean, that it is unmaintained, but used by default at sparc?
No it means that GHC uses compilation via C on sparc.
ok - after reading http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/186 - the Sparc NCG was active until 6.2 and disabled at >= 6.4.
I am asking because the solaris sparc system has a ghc 6.2 installed, [..] So if someone were to take up maintainership and fix the bitrotted sparc NCG then we could use -fasm again rather than the default being -fvia-C and benefit from quicker compile times.
Besides quicker compile times - does the NCG generates better code (more efficient - or is the via -fvia-c generated code less efficient)? Regards Georg Sauthoff