4 Feb
2003
4 Feb
'03
7:32 p.m.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
Aha! So what you really want is a code generator!
I suggest you take a look at C--. www.cminusminus.org (Check out the papers especially.) It's designed for exactly what Stix is designed for, only much, much better. There's a prototype implementation from Fermin Reig, and Norman Ramsey is working hard on another. (I'm ccing him.)
Hmm. Maybe someone can write a C-- front end for GHC's code generator!
I've looked at C--. It's certainly very interesting, but one of the benefits of using ghc for the frontend and the backend is that I don't need to think about the primitive operations much; I can just pass them through. A C-- front end for GHC would be almost perfect, if one existed. Mark