Re: DPH and CUDA status

Scott Michel wrote,

Are you also planning a LLVM backend for ghc, in a general sense, or just for the accelerated work you're doing? It seems to me that ghc itself could be well served with a LLVM backend, especially if one relies on the JIT mode. That could help identify code paths in the core and runtime that are infrequently used, further optimizing ghc's overall performance.

I had a student implementing a LLVM backend for GHC last year. You can find the details at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~pls/thesis/davidt-thesis.pdf We are planning to merge this work into the main GHC repository. (At the moment, this is not using the JIT, but that would be another interesting project.) Manuel