A package I just released (arb-fft) gets about a 17% performance boost from using GHC's LLVM backend (on my machine at least). That seems a big enough gain that I put "-fllvm" into the ghc-options field in the Cabal file for the package. Unfortunately, that means the package won't install unless you have the LLVM tools installed. What's the best thing to do? Use the native code generator by default and add a Cabal flag to install using LLVM? Just take the "-fllvm" out and add a note to the Cabal file description to tell people to install using LLVM if they have it? A quick survey of packages on Hackage reveals only very few instances where the "-fllvm" flag appears in Cabal files, which makes me suspect that I'm doing it wrong. -- Ian Ross Tel: +43(0)6804451378 ian@skybluetrades.net www.skybluetrades.net